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Trump confirmed using a racial slur about Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting while promoting a migration pause from those countries at a Pennsylvania rally.
- Tuesday, President Donald Trump admitted at a Mount Airy Casino Resort rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, that he used the slur `shithole countries` in a 2018 Oval Office meeting, bragging about it.
- While boasting about immigration moves last week, Trump said he paused Third World migration including Afghanistan, Haiti and Somalia, then a crowd member yelled the 2018 remark prompting his recall.
- He went on to disparage Somalia by saying it was `filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime` and added `But we always take people from Somalia` at the rally.
- The backlash included formal protests and condemnations, as some congressional Republicans condemned the comments while Botswana's government summoned the U.S. ambassador and President Macky Sall said he was shocked, stating `Africa and the Black race merit the respect and consideration of all`.
- The episode revives the 2018 controversy, which saw Trump's comments widely denounced as racist, and shows he has pushed past many norms of presidential decorum, dropping the F-bomb on camera this year.
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Trump Embraces His 'S---hole Countries' Remark From 2018
President Trump admitted Tuesday that he used the slur "s---hole countries" to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term, the AP reports. Back then, Trump had denied making the contemptuous statement during a closed-door...
US President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that he used the derogatory term "shithole countries" to refer to Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, boasting about a comment that sparked outrage…
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Trump once denied using this slur about Haiti and African nations. Now he boasts about it
President Donald Trump admits he used the slur “shithole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers to disparage Haiti and African nations.
Trump rails against Omar, migration from ‘hellholes’ like Somalia
President Trump on Tuesday went on a tirade against Somalian migrants and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during a rally that was billed as focused on lowering costs for Americans. Trump went on multiple tangents during the roughly 90-minute speech about Omar and stopping the flow of migrants from Somalia and other “third-world” countries. Trump has…
Ilhan Omar Totally Loses It Over Trump's Epic Comments About Her And Somalia - The American Tribune.com
In a wild interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan, the same interview in which she threw a fit over comments made by Stephen Miller, “Squad” Congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) lost it over comments made by President Donald Trump about the Somali community in America, going berserk when asked about his comments. As background, President Trump has been on a tear going after Somali migrants in the past month. For example, in a post following the te…
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