The White House statement following the President's reported "shithole" remark confirmed this attitude yet again: "Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people," the deputy press secretary, Raj Shah, said.
The statement did not directly address the reported "shithole" remark.
Jay-Z got political Saturday and lambasted Donald Trump's reported "shithole" remarks about African countries as "disappointing — and hurtful".
Congress appeared to signal that an agreement was imminent earlier this week, but some lawmakers suggested Trump undermined the negotiations with his reported "shithole countries" comment last week and his tweet Thursday that questioned CHIP funding in the proposal.
It had been two days since President Trump's reported comments about "shithole countries" and the supposedly undesirable immigrants they produce, but the aspiring farmers weren't fazed.
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To fail to report his tweets or his "shithole" remark is to fall down on the job of reporting the news.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, both in the meeting, confirmed last week the Washington Post report claiming Trump used the term "shithole".
What is the difference between calling countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America "shitholes," as President Donald Trump is widely reported to have done, and saying, as he did on Twitter, that he had been "tough" but hadn't used that precise language?
Not only has Airbnb pledged $100,000 toward advertising listings in El Salvador, Haiti, and Africa thanks to "some expletive-filled interest," but tourism organizations in Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia (or "Nambia," as Trump calls it) are now marketing their countries as the loveliest, most irresistible shitholes on earth, the Wall Street Journal reports.
