Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Trump in outburst about immigrants
PRESIDENT Donald Trump questioned why the US should permit more immigrants from “****hole countries” after senators discussed revamping rules affecting entrants from Africa and Haiti, sources said.
Trump made the remark in the Oval Office as two politicians described details to him of a bipartisan compromise among six senators that would extend protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and strengthen border protections.
The senators had hoped Trump would back their accord, ending a months-long, bitter dispute over protecting “Dreamers”.
But the White House later rejected their proposed agreement, plunging the issue back into uncertainty just eight days before a deadline that threatens a government shutdown.
Trump specifically questioned why the US would want to admit more people from Haiti. He also mentioned Africa and asked why more people from “****hole countries” should be allowed into the US, according to three people briefed on the conversation.
The president suggested that, instead, the US should allow more entrants from countries like Norway.
Trump met this week with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Asked about the remarks, White House spokesman Raj Shah did not deny them.
“Trump’s remarks were remarkable even by the standards of a president who has been accused by his foes of racist attitudes and has routinely smashed through public decorum that his modern predecessors have generally embraced.
Trump has also confirmed he will not travel to the UK to open the new American embassy – and hit out at the location of the $1.2 billion (£886 million) project.
Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump said he thought the embassy’s move from Grosvenor Square in the prestigious Mayfair district of central London to Nine Elms, south of the Thames, was a “bad deal”.
He wrote: “Reason I cancelled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars.
“Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon – NO!”