Ivana Trump Says Donald’s Not Racist, Just Confused

In a remarkable coincidence, Nielsen’s impressively detailed memory of last week’s events did not extend to whether the president had, in fact, characterized dozens of countries with predominantly non-white populations as “shitholes”.

Late Monday morning, about two hours after he arrived at his golf club in Florida, Mr Trump retweeted the White House post containing his address about Dr King.

Just like any one of us, President Trump is human and fallible and Africa should be careful not to fall prey to the anti-Trump narrative being pursued by a section of the United States press. He preferred Trump’s cooperative attitude in Tuesday’s bipartisan meeting, but said emotions “ran hot” all-around.

“So what I’m trying to do in Washington is fix a problem that affects people”. Additionally, Sen. Lindsey Graham told fellow South Carolina Republican Sen.

Critics of the president seized on reports that Trump questioned why the US admits people from what he called “shithole” countries and said he would prefer more immigration from places like Norway.

The Nicaraguan presidency expressed solidarity with countries and regional organizations that have slammed the derogatory term.

Trump’s cognitive health was a focus going into Friday’s medical exam with Jackson and his team, and the President himself asked the doctor conduct a cognitive test.

“The president hasn’t said he didn’t use strong language”, press secretary Sarah Sanders said.

He tells Nielsen: “Your silence and your amnesia is complicit”. “If he tweets, it’s out of his mouth”, she said. “And I think if we can get back to the negotiating table quietly, calmly, I think we can get it done – because we have no other option”.

“I was on a treadmill for the first time actually in quite a while, and it was at a very steep angle, and I was there for a very long time”, he said.

“It’s frightful for the security of our country”, Trump said, noting there was not enough funding for the wall he has promised to build on the U.S.

People briefed on the conversation also say that during the meeting the president also questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the US. As in, agreeable to anything: He actually said at one point that he would sign whatever immigration bill the assembled legislators managed to pass.

That’s according to Democratic Sen.

The secretary of the Homeland Security Department is testifying under oath that she “did not hear” President Donald Trump use a certain vulgarity to describe African countries.

But at last Thursday’s White House meeting on immigration with lawmakers, Trump made an about-face, rejecting a deal and, according to one official in the meeting, complaining about immigrants from “shithole” countries like El Salvador, Haiti and Africa. “That I can tell you”.

“It sounds like fake news to me”, Somali Information Minister Abdirahman Omar Osman said by phone from Mogadishu.

The White House has not substantively disputed accounts of the episode, in which Trump is said to have used the term “shithole” to describe African countries of origin for potential immigrants to the U.S. The revelations, semi-denials and continuing comments have cast a pall over the White House’s legislative agenda, brought the country closer to the brink of a government shutdown and sparked global outrage.

“It wasn’t helpful that we not only lost a few days, but that, look, in order to get anything (legislated). you need to be able to sit down and have frank, sometimes hard conversations without fear that someone will go out there and try to use it”, Diaz-Balart told CNN.

The comments have complicated the debate over an immigration deal to protect immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children, and also overshadowed larger spending negotiations ahead of a possible federal government shutdown this week. Asked whether the accusation that Trump spoke the offending words or the sentiment was phony, Cotton lied, “Yes”. “There shouldn’t be, because if there is, our military gets hurt very badly”.

Two other senators from Trump’s ruling Republican Party called the reports a “gross misrepresentation” amid some accounts that the president might allegedly have used the word “shithouse” instead of “shithole”.

“I am shocked by the words of President Trump on Haiti and Africa”, Senegalese President Macky Sall said in an official tweet. She said: “Why did NBC give him a show for a decade on TV”. Why did Chuck Schumer and all his colleagues come and beg Donald Trump for money? “They weren’t made.” Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who attended the lawmakers’ meeting, said that “shithole” was the “exact word used by the President, not just once but repeatedly”.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) said on Sunday that he heard from participants about the president’s comments soon afterwards. Democrats should stop opposing Trump’s “border wall” plan.