Nigeria summons United States ambassador over Trump comments - foreign minister

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"He has so many people left and right telling him what to say and what not to say ... and sometimes maybe it gets confusing", she replied.

African Union ambassadors to the United Nations have demanded an apology from the U.S. President Donald Trump for his racist remark on the people of Africa.

At least two Republican senators came out in defence of Mr. Trump in separate TV interviews on Sunday, saying they were at the meeting but did not hear Mr. Trump use the derogatory quotes attributed to him.

The U.S. Embassy in South Africa said the United States "deeply respects the people of Africa" as President Donald Trump's remark about immigrants from Africa causes outrage across the continent.

Asked on the UK's Good Morning Britain TV show about the President's vulgar remarks about African nations last week Ivana Trump said she did not believe they showed he was racist.

Trump has faced claims of racism throughout his adult life.

"The White House did not dispute Trump's use of the vulgarity". I'm not a racist.

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On Friday, after the alleged comment prompted a media storm, Botswana's government summoned its ambassador to the U.S. to ask whether Botswana was considered "a shithole".

"You can not dismiss entire countries and continents as "shitholes", whose entire populations who are not white, are therefore not welcome", said Rupert Coleville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The White House initially offered no denial of the charge that Trump questioned why the United States would want to accept immigrants from "s-hole countries".

However he later tweeted: "this was not the language used". And elect a Congress with the courage to censure a president when he makes blatantly racists comments.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of IL, who was at the Oval Office meeting, claimed the president made the derogatory term.

The New York Times reported that according to Durbin and other people briefed on the meeting by participants, there was "a dramatic moment" between Trump and Sen. Their people are part of us. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians.

"DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don't really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military", Trump tweeted. They said Trump expressed a preference for immigrants from countries like Norway, which is overwhelmingly white.

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