Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment Turns Immigration Into a Racial Dumpster Fire
President Trump spent January 16 trying to contain the blowback from reports that he disparaged Haiti, El Salvador and African countries during an Oval Office immigration meeting. The White House did not mount a clean denial, and the damage spilled fast: lawmakers, diplomats, advocacy groups and foreign governments treated the remark as both an insult and a policy signal. It handed critics a vivid example of how Trump’s immigration politics were increasingly inseparable from racial contempt.
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Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment Turns Immigration Into a Racial Dumpster Fire
President Trump spent January 16 trying to contain the blowback from reports that he disparaged Haiti, El Salvador and African countries during an Oval Office immigration meeting. The White House did not mount a clean denial, and the damage spilled fast: lawmakers, diplomats, advocacy groups and foreign governments treated the remark as both an insult and a policy signal. It handed critics a vivid example of how Trump’s immigration politics were increasingly inseparable from racial contempt.
President Trump spent January 16 trying to contain the blowback from reports that he disparaged Haiti, El Salvador and African countries during an Oval Office immigration meeting. The White House did not mount a clean denial, and the damage spilled fast: lawmakers, diplomats, advocacy groups and foreign governments treated the remark as both an insult and a policy signal. It handed critics a vivid example of how Tru…
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