president Donald Trump He admitted on Tuesday that he used the word “shithole countries” to Underestimating Haiti and African countries During a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, he bragged about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term.
At that time, Trump has been denied He made the insulting remark during a closed-door meeting, but on Tuesday, he showed little remorse when he repeated it during a closed-door meeting. Demonstration in Pennsylvania. He went on to further mock Somalia, calling it “filthy, filthy, disgusting and full of crime.”
Trump was boasting in his speech that he “announced an agreement last week.” A permanent stance on third world migrationincluding from hell like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries,” when a crowd member shouted out the 2018 comment.
Which prompted him to remind him 2018 incident. His novel was closely related to Description given at the time By people who were briefed on the Oval Office meeting.
Trump told the march participants: “We had a meeting and I said: Why do we only receive people from dirty countries, right? Why can’t we receive some people from Norway and Sweden?”
“But we always take people from Somalia,” he continued. “Places that are a disaster. Dirty, filthy, disgusting, and full of crime.”
The White House did not deny Trump’s statements at the time, but rather the president Posted on Twitter The day after the news broke that “that was not the language I used.” He added that “I never said anything derogatory about Haitians.”
Back in 2018, Trump’s comments denigrating black-majority countries while seeking more immigration from white-majority countries were widely denounced as racist. Some Republicans in Congress He condemned the commentsand Foreign leaders were angry. The Botswana government summoned the American ambassador, and Senegalese President Macky Sall expressed his shock, noting that “Africa and the black race deserve everyone’s respect and appreciation.”
But since then, Trump has transcended many of the norms and traditions of decency that guided his predecessors, both in his first term and in the years since. He often peppers his public statements with expletives, and that’s what happened this year The F bomb was dropped While the cameras were rolling – on two separate occasions.
On Thanksgiving, in a A couple of long posts On social media, while complaining about immigrants, he disparaged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, using an old insult for people with mental disabilities. Asked by a reporter if he stood by a comment that many Americans find offensive, Trump showed no remorse. “Yes. I think there’s something wrong with him,” he said.