I’m OK if he did say chithole. But it doesn’t really seem like something you would say in a professional meeting. Especially with Dems sitting there.
You probably aren't old enough to remember the kind of jack that came out of Lyndon Baines Johnson's mouth whenever he held meetings in the oval office in the early '60s. Repubs don't have a monopoly on use of raw language. Obama was a flagrant foul-mouth and there are tapes of him though no one talks about it for fear of being called "racist". That kind of speech has been part of American political discourse at the highest levels for a very long time.
I don’t doubt he used that term or a version. He was dressing the down the idiots in the room that brought him a shithole ‘gang of eight’ bill. 1.6 billion for border security. I have no doubt he blew up at this band of idiots. I also don’t doubt that he reiterated his key position that we need to change our immigration policy from open borders and mass immigration from third worlders to a policy of focusing on merit. I do not believe he was calling everyone from these shit countries worthless as is accused. That’s the enemy trying to extend the worthless ‘racist’ charge.
If anything he will use this situation to learn more about the swamp-monsters and adjust in kind - just as he has been for the past 24 months.
Normally, you would be correct; however, the level of professionalism depends on the context and the audience both in and out of the meeting.
Trump no doubt believes, after working with such matters 24/7, that hosting an adversarial meeting with such duplicitous, leftist-supporting, Obama acolytes (read lying, anti-American ideologues) is very similar to being in a locker room or on a construction site.
As for the second audience: there is probably no need to remind you the voters believed on the state of affairs after Clinton, Bush and Obama, that it was time to select a street fighter rather than a “reasonable gentleman”.