All Haitians have Aids, according to Prez Trump
NEW DELHI : US President Donald Trump is under fire for yet another faux pas, reportedly saying Nigerians “live in mud huts” and Haitians “all have Aids”, and that too at a White House meeting on immigration.
Trump, during a discussion at the Oval Office in June, was angry at the number of foreigners who had entered the US since he had been sworn in, said a report in The New York Times on Saturday. He told his national security team it was “making a mockery of his pledge” to stop people from certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the country.
Trump began reading out the number of foreigners who entered the country since January, officials present said. While reading that 15,000 Haitians had visited the US, he grumbled they “all have Aids”.
And reacting to the number of Nigerians who had entered the US — 40,000 — he exclaimed that they would “never go back to their mud huts in Africa.”
John Kelly, then homeland security secretary, and secretary of state Rex Tillerson tried to explain to Trump that most of these travellers were tourists making one-time visits.
However, all that served to do was to let tempers flare, resulting in a furious argument in the Oval Office, the report said citing Trump staff members.
The White House has strenuously denied the reports.