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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDespite White House denial, some find Trump's comments about black immigrants believable
The White House is disputing a New York Times report that President Trump allegedly made offensive comments about black immigrants specifically Haitians and Nigerians. But low confidence in the president combined with his history of controversial comments about immigrants and black people have led some to approach the White House's denial with disbelief.
During a June Oval Office meeting attended by top White House officials, the president was supposedly angered by just how many immigrants had received visas to enter the U.S. in 2017, according to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting.
Trump had won the 2016 presidential election after promising to be tough on immigration, and his immigration ban was constantly facing pushback and criticism from activists, some members of his own party and the courts.
The Times reported that Trump had read a list revealing the number of immigrants that had entered the country:
Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They all have AIDS, he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.
Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never go back to their huts in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
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JI7
(89,252 posts)He is a bigot. A disgusting ignorant bigot .
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)He talks like that all the time.
onethatcares
(16,172 posts)say, "Although it's a bit brash, the president feels this way"?
Show me something that this excuse for a human being has done that didn't serve anyone but himself. Anything.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)To many do, but the media elevated their message as oh sooo important for us all to listen to. Call their anxiety what it is- ignorance, fear and bigotry.
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)supporters would happily bring back slavery.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)them cover for their bigotry.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)includes LOTS of negative revelations about him, begging the eternal question: WHY does ijit-TWITLER *give* her so much access?!1
To be clear, I *LUERVE* her getting so much access coupled with her negative revelations, just wondering why he likes her so much while he trashes everybody else who says the LEAST little negative stuff about him.