Official reactions from Africa were appropriately critical of President Donald Trump’s credibly reported comments about not wanting more immigrants coming to the US from “shithole” countries.
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But as the fallout continues, there is something missing from the conversation: Trump’s alleged vulgar insult comes at a time of strategic shift in Africa – toward China. There is a statue honoring their service down South. He is not aware of the constitutional definition of treason.
Georgia Sen. David Perdue said Trump “did not use that word” and called the assertions that he did “a gross misrepresentation”. Trump said “Oh yes, that is what I meant”. “I don’t know in which context they were made”. These are evil days when the President of the United States doesn’t seem to understand that Africa is a continent, not a state, and he refers to countries such as Nigeria and Haiti and El Salvador as – y’all know that word. Haiti defeated Napoleon’s armies and became the first independent nation in Latin American and the Caribbean, the only nation established as a result of a slave revolt.
Trump has denied being racist, labeling himself the “least racist person there is” during his 2016 campaign.
Get DACA done, he said.
“I was in a meeting directly afterwards where those who were present spoke about the meeting”.
Durbin has urged the White House to help set the record straight and release whatever recording it might have of the meeting.
Durbin said after the Oval Office meeting that Trump’s words to the senators were “vile, hate-filled and clearly racial in their content”. Part of my teaching encompasses sharing research and insights with the public through opinion pieces like this one.
Monday night he took to Twitter to blast Democratic Senator Dick Durbin for, in his opinion, blowing up the immigration talks.
“I can’t defend the indefensible”.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is blaming President Donald Trump’s staff for the president’s about-face on immigration that appeared to scuttle a compromise deal to protect from deportation young people brought to the U.S.as children and living here illegally.
Despite what happened last week, Durbin says Trump and Republicans now have a chance to dispel those racism rumors. “We are ready to make a deal”.
Asked about Trump’s comments, Durbin said, “Politics ain’t beanbag”.
On this issue, Trump has not earned the benefit of a single doubt.
This does not deny the immediate danger posed by Trump.
He is marking his first King holiday in office buffeted by claims that he used a vulgarity to describe African countries and questioned the need to allow more Haitians into the U.S.
The president has suggested a government shutdown would hurt the military and wants Democrats to get the blame if that occurs. Attention was concentrated among the president’s opponents, with more than 70 percent of Clinton voters, but just over half of Trump voters and less than 40 percent of nonvoters and third-party voters saying they were familiar with the remark.
In Florida, Trump also sounded upbeat on North Korea, after confusion emerged over whether he had suggested in an interview that he had a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. “Never said ‘take them out.’ Made up by Dems”.
“I have no doubts”, Schumer replied.
“We have to be respectful, we are responsible for who we are and how we behave”, she said. It was hurtful, it was harmful, it shouldn’t have been said.
“No president has ever said what he said”, Fameux said.
“We’re here to talk about the Haitian contribution to Rockland County, to New York State and to the United States of America”, Carlucci said. The vision was championed more than a decade ago under the banner of an African Renaissance.
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Democrats have condemned Trump’s remarks as “racist”, a charge Sanders rejected as “outrageous”. This is a moment of opportunity for the Asian giant.
