Trump calls non-white countries "s**tholes"

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Still it does seem like there are those who flip out over virtually anything Trump says or does, up to him just sipping from a water bottle.

That's why it and them aren't taken seriously. There's a saying "pick your battles" but everything and anything becomes a battle. Everything becomes a drama and therefore those dispensing the drama just come off as drama queens.

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Two Republican Senators claim to have not heard President Trump saying that certain African and Latin American nations are "s**thole" countries.Multiple reports and one Democratic senator have claimed Trump used the word.

Two Republican senators on Friday claimed to have not heard the comments by President Donald Trump that certain countries are a "s**thole" compared to European ones.

In a joint statement, Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Purdue of Georgia said they did not recall Trump's remarks.

"President Trump brought everyone to the table this week and listened to both sides. But regrettably, it seems that not everyone is committed to negotiating in good faith," the statement said. "In regards to Senator Durbin's accusation, we do not recall the President saying these comments specifically but what he did call out was the imbalance in our current immigration system, which does not protect American workers and our national interest."

"We, along with the President, are committed to solving an issue many in Congress have failed to deliver on for decades," they added.

The senators' claim that they did not recall the comments is in contrast to what Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said of the meeting at the White House.

"You've seen the comments in the press - I have not read one of them that's inaccurate," Durbin said Friday. "To no surprise, the president started tweeting this morning denying that he using those words. It is not true. He said these hate-filled things, and he said them repeatedly."

Sen. Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, told the Post and Courier that Sen. Lindsey Graham, a fellow South Carolina Republican, had told him the reported comments were "basically accurate."

Many lawmakers have condemned the comments as racist and unbecoming of the presidency. In addition, the president hasdenied the specific remarks, but added that he did use "tough" language.

"The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used," Trump wrote on Twitter. "What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!"


PRAISE JESUS TRUMP DIDN'T SIGN ANYTHING!


Trump threatens to record future Oval Office meetings

After denying reports that he called Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as “s**thole countries," Trump suggested that maybe he should record future Oval Office meetings.

More hoopla over nothing.

More made up nonsense.

Another accusation lacking corroboration.

Another situation to call fake news.

The usual.

^ just like this thread.

Seems senior republicans dont think this is fake news
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/us/p ... gress.html

Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, told The Post and Courier of Charleston that Mr. Graham had related Mr. Trump’s remarks to him after the meeting, and he called news reports about them “basically accurate” based on that account.

According to three people briefed about the meeting, it featured a dramatic moment between the president and Mr. Graham, who referred to Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign as a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot,” but who has recently grown close to the president and has advised him on immigration policy.

After Mr. Trump disparaged African nations in foul terms, they said, Mr. Graham answered with an impassioned defense of immigrants and immigration as essential to the American ideals of diversity and inclusion.

Mr. Graham has not responded to repeated requests for comment on the president’s remarks or his own. But on Friday, he released a statement that appeared to confirm the tenor of both.

“Following comments by the president, I said my piece directly to him yesterday,” Mr. Graham said. “The president and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel. I’ve always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals.”

I wonder if Graham is considering a run for POTUS in 2020 or so?

Even a pet monkey running for POTUS would have more tact

he's trying to position himself as a more decent GOPer. I think by 2020, aside from the 62 million people who think he is the best thing since sliced bread, the remainder of America will be thoroughly sick and tired of the man and his drama and of being an international laughingstock, just as they were with Shrub.