Posted on 01/12/2018 12:34:40 PM PST by EdnaMode
President Donald Trump is under heavy fire today after allegedly making candid comments during an immigration meeting at the White House Thursday, calling countries like Haiti and many in Africa "sh*tholes."
“Why are we having all these people from sh**hole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met Wednesday.
Trump denies he used that exact terminology but Democrat Senator Dick Durbin, who was in the room, claims the word was used multiple times.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust! 8:48 AM - Jan 12, 2018
"The exact word used by the President, not once but repeatedly," Durbin told reporters Friday morning.
But a West Africa sociologist from Guinea agrees with President Trump. From Yahoo News:
"President Donald Trump is absolutely right. Africa is a continent of shit," says Mamady Traore, a 30-year-old sociologist in the West African nation of Guinea. "When you have heads of state who mess with the constitutions to perpetuate their power. When you have rebel factions that kill children, disembowel women as saints, who mutilate innocent civilians. Frankly, it must be said that it's crap."
Fox News' Tucker Carlson is also tamping down the outrage.
“So if you say Norway is a better place to live and Haiti is kind of a hole, well anyone who’s been to those countries or has lived in them would agree. But we’re jumping up and down, ‘Oh, you can’t say that.’ Why can’t you say that?” Carlson asked following amid bipartisan criticism of Trump’s remarks. Meanwhile, the White House rejected a proposal from Capitol Hill on DACA and the debate over comprehensive immigration reform continues.
We need to have some IQ tests for a Bigly limited number of potential immigrants.
Proper descriptive term for a country that cooks food on a fire of burning dung.
That’s what the Left always claims when it comes time to discuss more refugees, or returning refugees.
Why they need to escape that S.H.
What send them back to that S.H.?
Now we can’t address it like they always do? LOL
Like the character Beetlejuice, if we all say “sh*thole” thrice, the government shuts down.
Taking unskilled illiterate people who practice Islam is a danger to our citizens!
America is not the world’s social service program.
These countries have received enough aid over decades that has been squandered.
One couple simply tried to drive across Congo.
The adventure (taking weeks, wrecking their car, etc) is staggering: http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/50799-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo-Lubumbashi-to-Kinshasa
Methinks the whole "shithole" comment wouldn't be a big deal if the Dem's got what they wanted with DACA.
Which begs the question: which came first: the faux outrage or the rejection of DACA?
He was describing Durbin’s mouth.
Africans want to come to America
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We’ve come a long way baby. Up
Made a port visit back in the early 80’s to a ME country. The EO came over the 1MC and said parts of the country were like the year zero. I suspect the press would still be outraged if Trump would have used those same words.
First step to recovery — admit that you have a problem.
Next step and question: what makes them a sh!thole? Probably a murdering tyrant or tyrants. An extremely oppressive government that mistreats it’s citizens.
Solution (not a easy one that will never happen): regime change.
Muhammad Ali basically said the same thing a long time ago.
African Economist - For God’s Sake Please Stop the Aid
It has something to do with immigrants (both legal and illegal) who want to get out of their sh*thole countries because they are...sh*thole countries.
Perfectly alright with me if he said it.
They are ‘s-holes’ because their founders did not declare that, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….”
Instead, for generations African governments and elites have plundered the liberty of their citizens.
Yes, it does. The African sociologist was absolutely right. There is no reason for these countries to be such dysfunctional s***holes - except for their governments. They steal, kill to maintain their power, extort money from international aid agencies and the US, and do nothing with it except put it in their pockets.
[Meanwhile, the White House rejected a proposal from Capitol Hill on DACA and the debate over comprehensive immigration reform continues.]
Not if the slash and burn Democrats can help it.
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