South Africa summoned the United States’ senior diplomat in Pretoria yesterday over President Donald Trump’s recent disparaging comments about African nations and Haiti.
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Media reports said Trump favoured immigrants from Norway, saying they helped the country economically.
Trump drew widespread criticism last week after he reportedly referred to African countries as “shithole” countries. Dick Durbin Calls Trump a Liar – Mr. President, You Lied.
While the White House never denied Trump used an obscenity to talk about immigrants of color, the president deny it.
In effect the U.S. embassy in Pretoria and the South African government have clearly just agreed to detour around the embarrassing occupant of the White House and to continue without him.
Like many other senior diplomatic posts and State Department positions, Mr. Trump has simply left the South African post vacant, failing to name a replacement.
By Sunday, they have changed their minds with Sen. He called the new stories a “gross misrepresentation”.
“I’m telling you he did not use that word, George”.
“I’m telling you, he did not use that word”, he said on ABC’s “This Week” program.
“Honestly, I don’t think the Democrats want to make a deal”. Cotton and Sen. Purdue as calling Sen.
On Sunday, Trump said: “Did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments?” “I read two dozen tweets wishing me violence”. Durbin said the remarks were “vile, hate-filled and clearly racial in their content”. “Not once but repeatedly”.
Durbin, a Democratic senator from IL, said, however, that Trump did use “hate-filled, vile and racist” language in the meeting, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Monyela said Trump made “crude and offensive statement”.
“He never touched me badly”, she said.
Republican Senator David Perdue, who was at the same White House meeting and had said he did not recall whether Trump made the comment, was more explicit on Sunday. “I’ve always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals”. Jerrold Nadler and Hakeem Jeffries, and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul among them – took the stage to denounce Trump’s comments as the crowd sang Haitian folk songs in unison while waving flags and protest signs.
In a tweet on Saturday, the Embassy seems to be distancing itself from the alleged comment of the U.S. President Donald Trump denigrating African countries.
For these people, it is a wakeup call for African leaders to provide a conducive environment attractive enough to lure their people to stay in their respective countries instead of migrating to other countries where they are disrespected.
Trump then suggested that the US admit more people from countries like Norway. He said Durbin and Graham had been mistaken.
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“You can not dismiss entire countries and continents as “shitholes” whose entire populations are not white and, therefore, not welcome”, he told reporters at a news briefing in Geneva. But for African Americans marking Martin Luther King Day here in the United States, it appears the damage is done, as CGTN’s Owen Fairclough reports.
