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tough was the outlandish proposal made — a big setback for DACA!”
Trump eventually denied that he singled out Haitians and rejecting reports that he told the group of lawmakers the U.S. should “take them out” of the deal.
“Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country,” he tweeted Friday, floating the prospect of recording future meetings.
Last month, it was reported that Trump previously disparaged Haitians by saying they “all have AIDS.”
Trump, “in the course of his comments, said things which were hate-filled vile and racist,” Durbin told reporters.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) also backed the reports.
“The words used by the President, as related to me directly following the meeting by those in attendance, were not ‘tough,’ they were abhorrent and repulsive,” he tweeted.
The comments earned condemnation across the globe.
“There is no other word one can use but ‘racist,’” United Nations human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said in Geneva.
“It legitimizes the targeting of people based on who they are,” Colville said, adding that the comments “go against the universal values the world has been striving so hard to establish since World War II and the Holocaust.”
“This isn’t just a story about vulgar language, it’s about opening the door to humanity’s worst side,” he said.
The African Union expressed its “infuriation, disappointment and outrage” and demanded the president apologize.
Botswana’s government called Trump’s comment “reprehensible and racist,” saying the U.S. ambassador had been summoned to clarify whether the country “is regarded as a ‘s--thole’ given that there are Botswana nationals residing in the U.S.”
African immigrants in Manhattan were also appalled.
Abraham Ouzerou, 37, a worker at Accra Restaurant in Harlem, is from Togo, and came to New York in 2013.
“I would have so much to say to him if I could talk to him,” he said.
“Did he forget immigrants built this country?” NEW YORK’S Haitian community honored the eighth anniversary of the earthquake that devastated their country Friday — and denounced Pr esident Trump’s remark that the island nation was “a shithole.” The event at Brooklyn Borough Hall was planned as a memorial for the victims of the 2010 catastrophe that killed 230,000 — but it became a rally of about 100 people railing against the President. “(Trump) is sending a coded message that he wants to return to the good old days, of slavery, the good old days of water hoses, the good old days of German shepherds biting people fighting for their basic rights,” Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said. “It may be called the White House, but this is the country of color.” Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel urged the crowd to remember Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent fight for change. King’s birthday is Monday. “He would be nonviolent, but he would win,” Siegel said.