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African Countries Demand President Trump Apology Over 'Shithole' Comment

January 13, 2018 18:41·
Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington

Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington

After an emergency session to weigh Trump's remarks, the group said it was "concerned at the continuing and growing trend from the U.S. administration toward Africa and people of African descent to denigrate the continent and people of color".

"If confirmed these are shocking and shameful comments from the President of the United States". Those who did speak out argued the comments were merely unvarnished statements on the economic blight in some regions of the world, not an expression of racial preference. "Why do we need more Haitians?" "Let's judge the president after what we've done". "Either the president has been misinformed or he is miseducated", he said on "PBS NewsHour". He later took to Twitter to deny the racist comments.

Mr. Mahama condemned the reported comments and urged the African Union to take action following these developments.

"Apart from the vocabulary attributed to him, President Trump is right on target in his sentiment", Robert Jeffress, the evangelical pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and a presidential adviser, told CBN News.

And really, why shouldn't Trump be excited? He aggressively pushed for the death penalty for a group of black and Latino teenagers who were accused of raping a white woman in Central Park but later exonerated. "This president fights tirelessly for all Americans, regardless of race, religion, gender or background", said Raj Shah, a White House spokesman.

Donald Trump sparked outrage after allegedly saying during a DACA meeting, that Haitians, Africans, and Salvadorans are immigrants from "crappy" countries, adding that he want's them out and prefer immigrants from Norway. Jackson, who also provided care for President Barack Obama and became a White House physician in 2006, is expected to provide a detailed readout of the exam on Tuesday and answer questions from reporters. "President Trump seems to relish derogatory remarks about others and praise for himself".

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"This is not an example of a leak that shows the president to be a jerk", Naftali said.

Donald Trump is "in excellent health" according to the doctor who carried out his first medical check-up since taking on the presidency.

Mr. Trump's base may be overwhelmingly white, but by 2020 non-whites will be the majority of America's children.

Reports also indicate Trump said he believes the United States should have more people coming in from countries like Norway, which makes up less than one-tenth of one percent of Connecticut's immigrants with 544 people. "There are millions of unemployed people in the United States, millions of people who don't have health care services or access to education and we would not deign to make comments as derogatory as that", said Jessie Duarte, the deputy secretary general of the African National Congress (ANC). Another GOP attendee, South Carolina Sen. I would say unequivocally yes to that", said George Yancy, a professor at Emory University and the author of "On Race: "34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis", published in the fall. "The president will always reject temporary, weak and unsafe stopgap measures that threaten the lives of hardworking Americans, and undercut immigrants who seek a better life in the United States through a legal pathway".

In an afternoon of drama and confusing developments, four other GOP lawmakers - including hardliners on immigration - were also in Trump's office for Thursday's meeting, a development sources said Durbin and Graham did not expect. Paris Dennard, a senior director of strategic communications at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, said Trump "understands this community".

The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, likewise welcomed Trump's comments. The answer is this racist outburst of the president.

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