Trump makes shithead denial about his “shithole countries” remarks
“How is he going to play it off this time?,” the public wondered after learning that the president of the United States had reportedly, in the course of discussing a bipartisan deal on DACA, referred to entire nations of (non-white) people in the Caribbean and Africa as “shithole countries” while bemoaning the lack of meritorious (white) Norwegian immigrants ditching their universal healthcare for the amber waves of corn subsidies. Because the news isn’t all that shocking, coming from Mr. “Mexicans Are Rapists, But Neo-Nazis Are Fine People”—and while we don’t want to believe that we’re already that burnt-out on 2018, such racist remarks are part and parcel of this presidency.
And so, rather than let Sarah Huckabee Sanders try to spin this by, we don’t know, saying “shithole” is almost certainly a term of endearment in one of those countries’ languages, Trump did his own damage control from atop his porcelain throne this morning, tweeting a partial denial of the reports.