Nicaragua calls Donald Trump’s ‘shithole’ comments racist and disrespectful

In that meeting, according to Durbin and multiple reports, Trump referred to Haiti and countries in Africa with vulgar language, indicating he didn’t want immigrants from those nations in the USA, but would prefer more Europeans. “Did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments?” They also denounced Sen. And more than half – 54% – said it was appropriate for the media to repeat Trump’s language.

Trump drew worldwide condemnation after reports emerged that he had questioned the value of taking immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean nation of Haiti during a closed-door meeting with lawmakers at the White House last Thursday, referring to them as “s–hole” countries.

Statements from global and domestic organizations are expressing concern that the us and its president are going down a racist path. Trump has denied he is a racist and insists he didn’t make the reported vulgar remarks. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who was at the meeting, has confirmed Trump used the language some have called racist. And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation”, Perdue, who on Friday said he couldn’t remember what Trump said, told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”Sen”. “We need a merit based system of immigration, and we need it now!” he added Tuesday. Durbin said – that he stood by every word that he said.

As Graham and Durbin began describing the deal, Trump said, it was immediately clear it would be unacceptable to most Republicans. The following day, Trump tweeted “The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used“.

DURBIN: Did you hear me use profanity?

Donald Trump insists he’s not a racist. “They’re not entirely sure what to make of the American identity at the beginning of the 21st century”.

The contentious comments came as Durbin was presenting details of a compromise immigration plan that had money for a first installment of the president’s long-sought border wall. “And he said my family was from one of those s-hole countries”, Durbin said. “He used those words repeatedly”.

If so, Trump probably was right about that.

In a remarkable coincidence, Nielsen’s impressively detailed memory of last week’s events did not extend to whether the president had, in fact, characterized dozens of countries with predominantly non-white populations as “shitholes”.

Nielsen bizarrely responded by saying she was unaware of the racial makeup of the Scandinavian country. “Now I don’t know where that guy went”. But his doctor, White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, told reporters on Tuesday that the president’s overall health is “excellent”, despite his unhealthy habits, because he has “incredible genes”. “Come on. To think that the President of the United States would refer to any country on Earth as an S-House country, for goodness’ sakes, what does that say?”