"In a meeting in the Oval Office in January 2018, Trump argued against restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti and African nations, describing them as “shithole countries....” “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” the president reportedly said. “We should have more people from places like Norway.The following day, Trump claimed that he hadn’t used those specific words, but Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) ― who was in the room at the time ― swiftly contradicted him, saying that the president had infact "said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly.”
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino
$200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine. The first-person account of at least one black Trump casino employee in Atlantic City suggests the racist practices were consistent with Trump’s personal behavior toward black workers. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle....“ Trump allegedly disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms,
according to a 1991 book by John O’Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” O’Donnell recalled Trump saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” “I think the guy is lazy,” Trump said of a black employee, according to O’Donnell. “And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”