Posted on 01/11/2018 1:53:02 PM PST by 11th_VA
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.
The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.
A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trump’s remarks.
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It is probably just a fake news story targeted piss off El Salvadoreans, Haitians and such. Consolidate their base, any chance they can create.
Like we would be pissed if we heard someone was calling our homes a sh*thole.
Maybe people from those countries will be so insulted, they won’t come here.
9th circuit court of appeals issue restraining order against Trump administration to allow immigration from shithole countries.
So glad he is back!
I had wondered where he had gone during the televised meeting in Oval with the Dems and Gang of 8...
Good think Trump didn’t use the “p” word!
. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.
Cut by 150 percent is more like it!
It is a good question, what was their answer?
Trump should have been more polite and used the words “turd world countries” instead.
Since the MSM and Democraps talk as though it is some horrible punishment to be returned to those countries, it is confirmed every day that liberals truly do view those as s###hole countries. But I doubt Trump said this in such a meeting. More Leftard disinformation.
It doesn’t matter if he said it or not. The only point is that the dems and rinos and their media fire-hose want to portray Trump as poorly as possible despite the fact that their team is the motherlode of profanity laced tirades.
I hope not. This is the Trump I voted for!
Yes, these places are shitholes, primarily due to the people who live there and we certainly don't need them coming over here.
Two anonymous sources who were briefed on the meeting rather than actually being there? Quoted in the relentlessly anti-Trump Washington Post? And we should believe this why?
I doubt he said it but I wish he had. Because I've said it.
These nations are inferior and don’t deserve a single thing from the USA. Not one dollar.
If US citizens want to give to Oxfam or some private bleeding-heart charity, that’s their business.
Better to let these failed states continue to fail and let their people go back to the Stone Age, which is their natural condition.
It’s time we get over this masochistic guilt about our success — the US of A is just better than the Third World because we have the right people, the right institutions and we WORK FOR OUR PROSPERITY! We should not be guilt-tripped into providing for all the failures and beggars of the planet.
No doubt Trump will get a lot of flak over this, but he is exactly right. Shithole countries are that because of their people. If America gets enough shithole country people, eventually, critical mass will be achieved and voila, shithole America.
Every day, another reason to love this man!
Betcha ;-)
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