Trump defends self after comments, says: ‘I am not a racist’

Mr Trump has said he would end DACA, and his Twitter comments came as lawmakers worked on a bipartisan compromise on immigration policy.

This has irked some African nations with them calling on Mr. Trump to render an apology for his “racist” comments.

“No, no, I’m not a racist”.

But Trump’s “shithole” comment is far from an aberration: the president has a long history of racist remarks and actions that undercut his claim about being “the least racist” person. “I’m the least racist person you will ever interview”.

Some Democrats have threatened to vote against legislation to extend government funding, which expires on Friday, unless protections for the Dreamers are included.

“I think we have a lot of sticking points but they are all Democrat sticking points”.

Sen. Graham shared a statement on Friday which said: “Following comments by the President, I said my piece to him directly yesterday”.

The African Union on Friday demanded that the U.S. president apologise expressing their “shock, dismay and outrage” at the “clearly racist” remarks.

A source familiar with the meeting later told CNN’s Jake Tapper the President did not refer to Haiti as a “s***hole” but Trump did ask why the United States needs more Haitians and pushed to “take them out” of an immigration deal.

South Africa’s government has announced a formal protest of the remarks, despite acknowledging Trump’s denial of having used vulgar language to describe African countries.

Congress must pass a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown by next weekend, as the current spending law – itself a stopgap measure -runs only through January 19. But he has said that he would not enter into a deal with the Democrats on this until they agree to fund for a wall across the Mexico border to prevent illegal immigrants and flow of illicit drugs.

We must wake up from the slumbers of “we can’t do” and move forward in strength and solidarity of working with ourselves as a continent to develop; for there is no single foreign nation, that will come and solve our problems and challenges for us. What was reported was unacceptable. “They have a couple of meetings scheduled, a couple of additional meetings scheduled, and we’ll see what happens”.

Trump’s “shithole countries” remarks were confirmed by Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat who attended the White House meeting, after it was reported by The Washington Post and other media. He called the new stories a “gross misrepresentation”.

“I don’t think Donald is going to do anything unrational”, she told “Good Morning Britain”.

“I don’t think the comments were constructive at all, but I also think that, to be fair, we shouldn’t draw conclusions that he didn’t intend”, the Kentucky Republican said on “Meet The Press”.

“I heard that account before the account even went public”, he said on ‘This Week’.

She also appeared to rebut Trump’s remarks from earlier in the day.

“Furthermore, it does not contribute to global cooperation”, she said.