Trump: "We're not letting people come here from 'shithole' countries in Africa or Haiti
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............in Oval Office meeting.
President Trump leads a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room at the White House Thursday. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole 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.
The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.
A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trump’s remarks.
Outlining a potential bipartisan deal, the lawmakers discussed restoring protections for countries that have been removed from the temporary protected status program while adding $1.5 billion for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system.
The administration announced this week that it was removing the protection for citizens of El Salvador.
Trump had seemed amenable to a deal earlier in the day during phone calls, aides said, but shifted his position in the meeting and did not seem interested.
Graham and Durbin thought they would be meeting with Trump alone and were surprised to find immigration hard-liners such as Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) at the meeting. The meeting was impromptu and came after phone calls Thursday morning, Capitol Hill aides said.
After the meeting, Marc Short, Trump’s legislative aide, said the White House was nowhere near a bipartisan deal on immigration.
“We still think we can get there,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the daily White House news briefing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.7d4c7fa743dc
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President Trump leads a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room at the White House Thursday. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole 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.
The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.
A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trump’s remarks.
Outlining a potential bipartisan deal, the lawmakers discussed restoring protections for countries that have been removed from the temporary protected status program while adding $1.5 billion for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system.
The administration announced this week that it was removing the protection for citizens of El Salvador.
Trump had seemed amenable to a deal earlier in the day during phone calls, aides said, but shifted his position in the meeting and did not seem interested.
Graham and Durbin thought they would be meeting with Trump alone and were surprised to find immigration hard-liners such as Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) at the meeting. The meeting was impromptu and came after phone calls Thursday morning, Capitol Hill aides said.
After the meeting, Marc Short, Trump’s legislative aide, said the White House was nowhere near a bipartisan deal on immigration.
“We still think we can get there,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the daily White House news briefing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.7d4c7fa743dc
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If people are still listening to Trump, they are wasting their own time...
since when is africa a country??
This asshole has gone all the way off the rails. How his party responds to this will be PIVOTAL.
Nah. People need to hear what he's saying. And more importantly, people need to hear what he is allowed to say, and who is allowing him to say it.If people are still listening to Trump, they are wasting their own time...
This 33% in his base... when he says this, they say it, too. And we (collectively) need to never forget that that is the case.
Nah man... this is the POTUS. If you're not listening to the idiotic drivel that comes out of his mouth or from his fingertips, you're ignoring shit that can and will affect us and everyone around us. Because of what and where he is, everything he does is important, as nauseating as that sounds.....
If people are still listening to Trump, they are wasting their own time...
Jeffery Toobin on CNN said it best just now. He said trump has racist views, and a lot of people like that about him... it's a feature, not a bug.
You're right. They had better unequivocally get right in his ass. Of course the David Clarke types will say he didn't say anything wrong.
Peace,
We already know how they’ll respond, man. No new absurdity will change anything.
We already know how they’ll respond, man. No new absurdity will change anything.
Everyone need to take a knee until this M/F is gone!
I would delete this ASAP.
Nah. Don’t fuck up your bag. Choose a sport or business and never use it until he is gone.
Trump is a racist, that is a given. HOWEVER, I will be damned if every demographic that has played footsie with these CACs over the last few decades is not getting their wakeup call:
Muslims (Majority voted for Bush, hate black people)
Latinos (No explanation needed)
Afro-Latinos (We aren't black)
Africans (We aren't black)
Again, this is not our battle; let these people hold their own nuts as they sure as hell disappear quick as fuck when we need them.
Muslims (Majority voted for Bush, hate black people)
Latinos (No explanation needed)
Afro-Latinos (We aren't black)
Africans (We aren't black)
Again, this is not our battle; let these people hold their own nuts as they sure as hell disappear quick as fuck when we need them.
Shut the fuck up.
ad hominem but no rebuttal.
Apropo for that idiotic, sheepish pseudo-Black-conscious-by-proxy BULLSHIT you typed.
MAN... I DEEEEEEPLY HATE THIS
RACIST PIECE OF SHIT CRACKA
AND ALL OF HIS DEFENDERS!
RACIST PIECE OF SHIT CRACKA
AND ALL OF HIS DEFENDERS!
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still waiting on the rebuttal...
Kill yourself. That's your rebuttal.
Flustered ad hominems, but no actual response. nice job.
He is what we hoped he wouldn't be
Never...it's a continent.......it's what happens when ur talking on the phone and watching the tv when you see a story and go to post it....makes no difference.....Spectrum got the story up couple of minutes earlier !!!!
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I hope someone kills him. For the rest of my life, I would celebrate the anniversary of his assassination. I just hope his assassination occurs when it's warm enough to barbecue.
Unfortunately he is exactly who I knew he would be... Still can't believe there were/are at least a few supporters right here on this board with us. I can imagine them trying to find an appropriate "but Hillary"... "but Obama" response right now.
Then brother, the downward rolling snowball to fascism will have gained speed and velocity.
Peace,
Oh it’s been snowballing for a long time now. They’ve already circled the wagons around this guy. They won’t abandon him until it looks as if he’ll be removed from office.
And they certainly won’t mind that he disparaged African countries.
Oh it’s been snowballing for a long time now. They’ve already circled the wagons around this guy. They won’t abandon him until it looks as if he’ll be removed from office.
And they certainly won’t mind that he disparaged African countries.