Trump attacks protections for immigrants from 'shithole' countries in Oval Office meeting

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.

A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trumps remarks.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html

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Edit to add the Vicente Fox Quesada retort -

Link to tweet

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Vicente Fox Quesada
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@VicenteFoxQue

.@realDonaldTrump, your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world. With what authority do you proclaim who’s welcome in America and who’s not. America’s greatness is built on diversity, or have you forgotten your immigrant background, Donald?
5:46 PM - Jan 11, 2018

[dalton99a]

1. Racist to the core.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Sad. Sad but true. . . . . nt

[L. Coyote]

82. Ana Navarro kick him in his shithole for this:

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Hey Stupid,yes you Donnie.

Why would anyone from Norway,Sweden,Denmark or Germany want to come here and get sick and die. What a Stupid POS.

[Control-Z]

3. Gawd, noooooooooo!

I had to look twice to see this wasn't the onion. I went to the link and am still looking for "satire" "humor" "joking"... Something, anything as an explanation.

[47of74]

4. Hey Donnie, you wanna see a shit hole country....

....try looking out the window at what you're turning in to a shithole country.

[Cattledog]

5. Bigot. Gotta stop the Brown people.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Lowering the mind into the gutter

and washing it in sewage

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. I hope they find a mass tomorrow....

...a big one.

This guy is beyond sick.

[iluvtennis]

8. Bigot against ppl of color. But, it's okay for pregnant Russian women to come here to give birth...

Russians Flock to Trump Properties to Give Birth to U.S. Citizens

While the president rails against children of undocumented immigrants, wealthy Russians rent his condos—at huge costs—so they can have American kids.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-flock-to-trump-properties-to-give-birth-to-us-citizens

[Motley13]

10. He is the most disgusting excuse for a human being on earth

I know that is nothing new, but each day it is something that s/b grounds for impeachment.

[mobeau69]

11. Tapper just gave a parental warning before reading this story.

Malignant normalcy.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Did he bleep it out or...?

[mobeau69]

17. Nope and Acosta just quoted it again with his "apologies".

Something like "I apologize but this is a quote from the President of the United States."

[BumRushDaShow]

18. !!!!

[LeftInTX]

12. Hey Donny wanna see a sh!thole? Look in the mirror.

[UpInArms]

13. my daily dose of embarrassment continues

[riversedge]

65. agree. everyday seems the stinking @whitehouse gets worse!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. Where is that piece of shit Bernard Sansaricq now? I though he was boys with Orange Cat Anus. I'm

sure he can work it out..........

[grantcart]

16. My friend and I have a "N - word" countdown clock

It is like the nuclear war countdown clock but it measures how long before Trump just can't stand it anymore and uses the "N Word" like, "Well sure he would say that, he's a N*%%#$".

We had it down to 3 days but have now adjusted it back because of the "shithole" comment. Now everybody is going to be on his case about this and he is going to have his defences back up. Its just a matter of time before his inner KKK jumps out.

Bannon must be laughing his ass off.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. As I understand it, he is known for his rants

but it is interesting that someone in the room felt it necessary to leak this out.

[Satch59]

20. CNN had shithole in title on screen...

Great. They are playing hardball. Nicole Wallace on MSNBC has had it, she was relentless in attacking him.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. I just turned it on!

Wolf looks flummoxed.

[kairos12]

21. Scary that his words make his base happy

[DesertRat]

22. I just saw "Shithole" trending on twitter

And I knew right away that it involved this Shithole

[Fritz Walter]

61. Websters -- or at least Urban -- Dictionary needs to update their entry for this word

Just add this photo.
No explanation necessary.

DesertRat, I was seething with anger and embarrassment about this latest Drumpf-ism. Until I saw your response. Thanks for making me laugh!


You either laugh about these things, or you cry about them. And Drumpf is not even worth two tears in a bucket...!

[DesertRat]

72. I am only surviving this nightmare with humor

and wine helps too.

[MrScorpio]

23. White supremacist piece of shit says what?

[BumRushDaShow]

41. He is Archie Bunker

channeling Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[TheCowsCameHome]

53. Bunker was funny and had some redeeming qualities.

Tump has NONE.

[BumRushDaShow]

54. Yes but

am referencing "the working class stiff look", complete with the easy chair in front of a TV.

[whathehell]

83. Not in the least...Archie Bunker had a heart

and far more class than Herr Cheese Hair Trump.

[BumRushDaShow]

85. Think the Archie Bunker "archetype"

channeling the KKK. Not the literal Archie Bunker who was a sympathetic character.

The "working class archetype" goes back to "Fred Flintstone" and Jackie Gleason's "Ralph Kramden" too.

[whathehell]

86. You mean the stereotype...

Beyond that I don't care for stereotypes much, none of the characters you mentioned would be so bigoted to be "channeling the KKK"

[BumRushDaShow]

87. No, I mean character "archetype"

Having the character's exaggerated behavior written as a "stereotype" to a degree, is a given. But the fact that Bunker is given a "sympathetic streak" (i.e., a sympathetic villain almost like an anti-hero when all is said and done at the end of an episode) is why I say this.

[whathehell]

88. I'll grant you that, but

again, none of these characters are kkk material -- no way.

[BumRushDaShow]

89. My post said it was that character CHANNELING KKK.

It did not say Bunker WAS KKK.

[whathehell]

90. Okay, I understand you now.

[BumRushDaShow]

91. 👍

[whathehell]

92. Back at ya

[mcar]

25. So much for the big pivot

[BumRushDaShow]

27. Was anyone still expecting one a year later?

[mcar]

29. He got a bit of praise for the cameras in the meeting

What a freaking moron!

[BumRushDaShow]

33. He became a laughing stock for calling his meeting room "a studio"

[mcar]

34. And bragging on his "performance" and the "reviews" of same

[BumRushDaShow]

36. Yup.

The only important thing to him is "ratings".

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Hey, dumbshit, a lot of those people have been here for decades. Why,

Oh why, can't we deport him and his slimey family?

[hadEnuf]

28. Get this piece of garbage out of the people's house.

NOW!

[jazzcat23]

93. I agree...

by the way, he said the white house is a dump! And now he's doing everything possible to turn it into one.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

30. Lead story on Washington Post.com, with 'shithole' unexpurgated! I hope Dick Durbin recorded it.

[Vinca]

31. It's astonishing to hear the word "shithole" on a news broadcast, but they didn't

beep out a thing on CNN. Good for them and screw Trump's FCC. It's a quote from the POTUS . . . much to our great shame and embarrassment.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. M$NBC has it asterisked out

But CNN kept it uncensored!

(am guessing it's because M$NBC shares their stuff with NBC News - i.e., "network&quot

[Still In Wisconsin]

32. Ah yes... "shithole" countries. Translation: poor countries with lots of brown people.

You know, same as shithole cities, like Baltimore, Chicago, Camden, Milwaukee, Detroit...

Oh and just in case.

[handmade34]

37. every..fucking..day

what is wrong with us that we can't rid ourselves of him and his family??? ironically he is turning the U.S. into a shithole...

[SummerSnow]

38. Wonder if this idiot was there?

[DoctorJoJo]

39. He Should At Least Give Us a List of Shithole Countries!

Let me guess--their populations would be darker than Normay's (sic)!

[progree]

48. I'm sure Rex Tillerson is working on it -- a State Department Travel Advisory on Shithole Countries

[duforsure]

40. 3 examples of how unfit Trump is today

First he tweeted falsely about a national security issue with FISA, then he refused to accept the DACA agreement the group in Congress made once again the opposite of what he claimed earlier in the week he would do on national tv. He's lost, he's a mess, and incapable of performing his duties as President of the United States. He has no business being allowed to remain in office, and the GOP are responsible for this dangerous disaster. Now he's made a horrible remark about immigrants of color. This is only going to escalate, and with the real possibility of much worse happening.

[BumRushDaShow]

43. Don't forget the "F-52" video game jets that the U.S. supposedly sold.

[Botany]

42. "I am the least racist person that you have ever met," Trump 9/15/'16

"I am the least racist person that you have ever met," Trump told the pastor in the interview taped earlier this month and aired on the Impact Network.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-election-2016-racism/index.html

[orangecrush]

44. Article 25 yet?

How much longer can they ignore it?

[BumRushDaShow]

47. I have been slowly reading "the book"

and the sentiment (I expect Bannon's) was that there will always be some "outrage" that was guaranteed to knock an earlier "outrage" out of the news cycle, so basically why sweat it.

[orangecrush]

78. Todaysremark

has sparked international outrage.

[progree]

45. Hillary would have been worse. A lot worst. Ten times worser! (sic, sic)

(just channeling our Jeeper friends)

[ehrnst]

51. TOTALLY worse - at least just as bad....

Thank you everyone who voted third party or supported those who damned her with "well, not 'this' woman...

[silverweb]

46. Uhhh... Donny?

(Non-white) people from "shithole" countries want to come here because it's less of a shithole here than where they are now. They obviously don't know about the *real* conditions here for immigrants (and even citizens) of color since our government went full, unabashed white supremacist with your inauguration.

The (white) people from places like Norway aren't coming. They like it better where they are, with all that socialist stuff you hate so much. You know, like single-payer healthcare, paid college, generous parental and family leave, guaranteed retirement, and many other benefits from their government that we lack.

Hey, Donny? Go have a nice little on-the-record, under-oath chat with Mueller and his boys now, okay?

[BeyondGeography]

49. He said it with his shithole

[Freethinker65]

50. Time for the olde Graham flip flop

What an a$$hole we have for President.

[AlexSFCA]

52. is it on tape?

[redstatebluegirl]

55. He can't hide the fact he is blatant racist.

He gives it a go, but he is so racist he can't hide it forever. He is a Klan guy, my guess is he has a sheet in his closet left to him by his Daddy.

[Mr.Bill]

56. It's not only a problem he said shithole countries,

the real problem is he will go up in the polls for saying it.

[gademocrat7]

57. This man is a disgrace to our country.

[Dave Starsky]

76. He is a disgrace to every country.

It is a disgrace that he is given any significance whatsoever.

He represents the lowest of the lowest of all humans.

[CanonRay]

58. Shithole countriesDark skin

The man is a racist pig.

[Paladin]

59. I'm not even surprised by this. Sad! (nt)

[sfwriter]

60. This is apparently a Republican value now. Sad. n/t

[Chakaconcarne]

62. Let's hope they squeeze this little tidbit onto the national evening news tonight.

This should take some attention off fire and fury for a spell.

[BumRushDaShow]

63. Oh they all have

As a top story. NBC actually used the term & ABC said it was a word they couldn't say. Missed what CBS said except by the time I had turned on the radio simulcast of the opening, they were apparently reading a tweet from the Congressional Black caucus and I only caught the end of that where it said "Make America White Again".

[Juliusseizure]

64. I wish they taped that

Trump like all narcissists is two different people. One real and one fake.

A vile insecure shallow extremely volatile uneducated shitbag and criminal sociopath, concealed under a fake gold veneer of superficial charm and pretense of superiority. The latter is now being ripped to shreds, revealing that disgusting core more and more.

I'd love to get the real Trump taped and videod.

[BumRushDaShow]

66. "I'd love to get the real Trump taped and videod"

But he already has been. That is what the "Access Hollywood" tapes were about. But apparently no one cares and his jackass base plus the revolutionaries still made sure that he got elected, along with the help of Russia, the GOP, and the media that mocks him now.

[Puzzler]

67. Just when I thought he couldnt surprise us

any more, along comes this.

FFS





-Puzzler

[yonder]

68. well that should keep his base chortling for a spell...

...and why would any Normegians want to come here anyway? They have a functioning government which cares for the needs of it's people, AND they get to fly F-52's in the comfort of their own homes.

[BumRushDaShow]

71. "and why would any Normegians want to come here anyway?" - Remember Romney's advisor's quote?

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”

https://thinkprogress.org/romney-adviser-says-obama-doesnt-fully-appreciate-our-anglo-saxon-heritage-f1712b92e2b7/

[yonder]

81. good memory!

In comparison unfortunately, at this point I'd probably be okay with a Romney-type sitting in the WH even though your link shows they really are cut from the same herd. I'm just so weary of this regressive complicity, day in and day out, with no end in sight.

[BumRushDaShow]

84. The "Romney type"

i.e., "Rockefeller Republicans" can be guilted into compromise, with a better chance of pushing to make an attempt to "do the right thing".

However, the KKK group in the WH right now are beyond any hope or redemption.

[Amimnoch]

69. LOVE Vincente Fox

325 million people here... Wish we had just one Democratic leader that calls it like he does.

on edit: We do have great leaders, and not insinuating that we don’t, but we don’t have any that calls it with the style, directness, and sharpness like he does.

[Puzzler]

70. The NY Times didnt censor it, FYI

-Puzzler

[BHDem53]

73. The shithole "stable genius" probably thinks that

Haiti and El Salvador are in Africa.

[warmfeet]

74. I can see the shit hole from my living room,

every time he opens his mouth. No harm, or disparagement, was intended to actual shit holes in this post (actual shit holes serve a purpose, after all).

[calimary]

75. Oh my God. The Ugly American 2.0 - for real.

He’s an international embarrassment. Night ‘n’ day difference from his predecessorjust had another close friend day the phrase of the era: “I can’t believe I’m actually thinking fondly of dubya... “

[dubyadiprecession]

77. Vicente Fox was not a great leader to include in your thread.

He provided no hope to the poor in mexico. Their lives wouldn't get any better while he was in office. All he did was encourage poor mexican's to head for the US Border.

Vicente Fox is slightly better than Trump, but nowhere near as good as Barack Obama!

[BumRushDaShow]

80. What's the ditty about "My enemy's enemy"?

[Docreed2003]

79. The real shithole...