Using the most condescending and undiplomatic language imaginable, US President Donald Trump has reportedly asked why “people from shithole countries come to” the United States.
Trump made the contemptuous comments about immigrants from Haiti and African countries during a White House meeting on Thursday with lawmakers who were reportedly startled and charged that the Republican president is racist, according to multiple people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to The Washington Post.
“Why do we need more Haitians?” he added, according to the report. “Take them out.”
Trump reportedly suggested America should accept more immigrants from European countries such as Norway, whose Prime Minister Erna Solberg met with Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
Later on, The New York Times also reported the same comment, citing unnamed sources with direct…