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Donald Trump insisted he was not racist after an international reparation over the offensive comment he was accused of working in some Africans, Central America and the Caribbean.
The US president criticized the UN and the African Union (AU) after it was credibly informed that he had described Haiti, El Salvador and African nations at that time as the "Shithole country." meeting of the Oval Office on Thursday.
Trump defended himself on Sunday, telling reporters: "I was not racist" when he came to dinner at his private golf club with the leadership of most of Kevin McCarthy.
“I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. That I can tell you,” he said.
On Friday, the UN human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, condemned the “shocking and shameful” comment.
“You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as ‘shitholes’ whose entire populations are not white and, therefore, not welcome,” he told reporters at a news briefing in Geneva.
Trump has previously tried to pass a ban on travel to the US from various Muslim-majority countries, which a judge said was a continuation of his “promise to exclude Muslims from the United States”.
Colville said:
“This isn’t just a story about vulgar language. It’s about opening a door to humanity’s worst side. It’s about validating and encouraging racism and xenophobia that will potentially disrupt and even destroy the lives of many people.
“And that’s perhaps the single most damaging and dangerous consequence of this type of comment by a major political figure.”
The AU, made up of 55 countries, also condemned the remark and demanded an apology.
“This is even more hurtful given the historical reality of just how many Africans arrived in the United States as slaves and also terribly surprising, as the United States remains a massively positive example as just how migration can give birth to a nation,” said a spokeswoman for the union’s chair.
Trump has faced claims of racism throughout his adult life. He insisted Barack Obama was not born in the US during his presidency and demanded that his predecessor release his birth certificate to demonstrate otherwise.
In 1989, he took out full-page ads in four New York newspapers demanding the return of the death penalty after five black teenagers were arrested over the rape of a woman in Central Park. They were innocent.
On Sunday, Trump said:
“Did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments? They weren’t made.”
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