US President Donald Trump made a comment unbecoming of a President
and this did not go down well with a lot of people. His comment has now
sparked condemnation from people around the world.
While complaining about immigrants coming to the US, during
immigration negotiations on Thursday with lawmakers in the Oval Office,
Trump said: “Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries
come here?”
Trump was referring to people from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras and African countries in the temporary protected status
program. As soon as his statement was made public by the media, the
world was infuriated and called him out for it.
In the US, Democrat and Republican lawmakers criticized Trump’s
comments as “divisive” and “unacceptable,” while Haiti, one of the
countries explicitly named by Trump, summoned the top US diplomat to
discuss the President’s remarks.
Former Haitian President Laurent Lamothe said the “world is
witnessing a new low today” and called Trump’s remarks “totally
unacceptable!”
“It shows a lack of respect and ignorance never seen before in the recent history of the US by any President,” Lamothe tweeted.
Former Mexican President and longtime Trump critic Vicente Fox took
to Twitter to say that Trump’s mouth “is the foulest shithole in the
world.”
David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and
former UK Foreign Secretary, said the “Trump Administration (is) leading
a race to the bottom on refugees and immigrants that is a betrayal of
America’s future as well as of its history.”
Kenyan activist and politician Boniface Mwangi said: “how America
elected a narcissist, racist, white supremacist to be their president
defies logic.”
Twitter users resident in the countries Trump mentioned were not left
out as they too took to social media to condemn Trump’s utterance.
In Haiti, people took to Twitter to share pictures of their beautiful
country with verdant green hills, palm trees in the sunset, and
sparkling turquoise water.
Harold Isaac wrote: “Hey #ShitHolePresident! Here is what my #shithole looks like.”
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