Shithole president is upping the xenophobia [View all]

Trump is upping the xenophobia

President Donald Trump finally admitted Tuesday night that he referred to some countries, including heavily Black ones, as “shithole countries” back in 2018.

The first striking thing about that is that he’s effectively admitting that he and some prominent Republicans were extremely dishonest about the episode.

Trump claimed at the time that “this was not the language used.” A pair of GOP senators who were present at the closed-door meeting where he reportedly made the comment said they didn’t recall him using such language. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas said Trump offered no such sentiment. Then-Sen. David Perdue of Georgia said Trump did not use that word and called it a “gross misrepresentation.”

It’s not exactly news that Trump lies, but it is something to see him basically admit to a lie and to throw some allies who had vouched for him (and volunteered their own credibility) under the bus. And that should not get lost here.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-upping-xenophobia-003007601.html

Shithole eventually throws everyone under the bus