Just don’t care about whether the President said it or not. Either way, the descriptor is accurate. Those who think it is not accurate, should move there and enjoy it.
All he has to do is say he had a cold. Everything is forgiven (not).
Not that it is a slur, but that it is crude. Sh*t hole or not, it is still a hole.
And if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Personally I don’t care whether he said it or not, but I wonder why no one has tried to defend it. He was most likely using the s. . . .hole or other such term to describe the government who would let it’s people live in such deplorable conditions, not the people.