UPDATED: Trump responds to s---hole reports: 'This was not the language used'
Last edited Fri Jan 12, 2018, 10:17 AM - Edit history (1)
Source: The Hill
BY BROOKE SEIPEL - 01/12/18 07:49 AM EST
President Trump on Friday addressed reports that he referred to some immigrants as coming from shithole countries," tweeting to his followers that it wasn't the language he used.
Link to tweet
The tweet appeared to reference the heated Oval Office meeting in which he reportedly made the comment that Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries were "shithole countries."
Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? Trump said, according to The Washington Post, which first reported his comments on Thursday.
Trump did not specify in his tweet Friday morning which language he did use, but only said it was "tough."
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368662-trump-responds-to-s-hole-reports-this-was-not-the-language-used
UPDATE:
Fox & Friends host called for Trump to clarify s---hole' comment shortly before denial
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 01/12/18 08:59 AM EST
A Fox & Friends host called on President Trump to walk back his comments calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations shithole countries shortly before Trump did so in a tweet Friday morning.
It may be just the latest example of a link between Fox News reports and presidential tweets.
The sequence on Thursday followed a similar pattern with Trump tweets.
During the Fox & Friends opening segment just before 6 a.m., host Brian Kilmeade said Trump needed to clarify" his comments "right away, before noon, so he can move forward on substantive talks to help the country. Kilmeade's comments were noted by Matt Gertz of Media Matters.
Link to tweet
more
http://thehill.com/media/368673-fox-friends-host-criticized-trump-shithole-comment-moments-before-he-walked-it-back-in
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)He is so vile it's only a matter of time.
lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)and all the money I will make for the rest of my life that...
he already HAS used that word in the White House.
We will never hear about it because there wasn't someone with honor and courage in that conversation.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)It took the Nixon tapes to reveal the anti-semitism replete in Nixon's babbling -- and, as a bonus, the tapes also caught the sainted Reverend Billy Graham denouncing America's Jews as threatening the liberties which bigoted racist s.o.b.'s like him and his son hold dear.
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 12, 2018, 10:39 AM - Edit history (1)
I bet hell be sloppy enough to use it in front of someone who will report it.
It is honestly what he thinks, and he just loves to run his mouth.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)give it time.
trusty elf
(7,393 posts)SAD
JohnnyA
(6 posts)Please tweet as well.
trusty elf
(7,393 posts)please feel free to use it as you wish.
Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)and that he really said "shithouse." Is that what he's talking about? Oh, Donald. Time to pack up your toys and go home, don't you think?
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)And now that theres blowback Oh I didnt say that! Also, how much more of a setback could DACA get from this racist asshole that ended the program.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)do I need the sarcasm thingie?
Botany
(70,504 posts)....
"I am the least racist person that you have ever met," Trump 9/15/'16
"I am the least racist person that you have ever met," Trump told the pastor in the interview taped earlier this month and aired on the Impact Network.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-election-2016-racism/index.html
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What kind of shithole produced this mentally ill man child con man?
johnp3907
(3,731 posts)Just not in those exact words.
PatSeg
(47,430 posts)He isn't denying the sentiment of what he said, just the swear words, like a kid denying he was cussing on the playground.
Meanwhile, maybe he has no idea what he said, though I'm sure he did.
truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)Too late shithead. You waited until you were on the toilet to deny it. Its gone through the entire cycle and youre way too late to erase the truth.
underpants
(182,803 posts)still_one
(92,190 posts)what the country stands for
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Trump was definitely talking about the PEOPLE of Norway versus the PEOPLE of Haiti.