President Donald Trump admitted Tuesday that he used the slur “shithole countries” to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term. Back then, Trump had denied making the contemptuous statement during a closed-door meeting, but on Tuesday, he showed little compunction reliving it during a rally in Pennsylvania . He went on to further disparage Somalia as “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.” Trump was boasting in his speech that he had last week “announced a permanent pause on Third World migration , including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries,” when someone in the crowd yelled out the 2018 remark. That prompted him to recall the 2018 inci
Trump once denied using this slur about Haiti and African nations
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