TRUMP DECLARES: DEVELOPING AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE “S---HOLE” COUNTRIES!

…Many citizens of Africa sent Trump tweets of pictures of their beautiful countries

 

United Nations spokesman described Trump’s remarks as totally “racist.”

 

As is usual from the Trump White House, even though more than one individual had overheard the president’s comments about developing African nations and Haiti as “shithole” countries, Trump is of course, falsely denying that he called these countries such a disgusting name.

 

This comment was made by Trump in the context of the debate about whether to take in people from said, “s---hole countries”.

 

Multiple TV journalists have declared that Trump has revealed himself as a “true racist”. It’s now safe to say this on prime-time television, but those of us that have been following Trump for years already knew Trump was a racist.

 

But what this blaring comment from the president does now is shatter the endless B.S. that Trump and his supporters have employed to obscure a basic truth: “That the nationalism that is at the core of Trumpism is heavily driven by a reactionary backlash to the current ethnic and racial mix of the US population.  It is pure white nationalism, despite all the “what-me-a-racist?” protestation to the contrary.”

 

Trump’s comments have basically stopped the negotiations underway over the deal to protect the “Dreamers.”  It can no longer be denied that Trump opposes the deal because it does not do enough to roll back ongoing racial and demographic trends

 

Here’s where we are and where Trump is taking us.  And remember, America already is a nation of immigrants of all colors.

 

Here are the particulars of the immigration talks and Trump’s response to them.

 

In the White House, a bipartisan group of senators had presented an agreement that would grant protected status to the Dreamers who were brought here illegally as children.  The agreement would pump more money into border security, and it would tweak family-based immigration and end the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program.” This program distributes visas to countries with historically low immigration rates, many of these countries are in Africa and Central Asia, channeling those visas to some US residents with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from countries like El Salvador, Nicaragua and Haiti.  This is the program that Trump is rolling back.

 

Trump reacted to a discussion of that last component of the deal by saying “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” This was before suggesting that the United States should instead allow in more people from countries like Norway, you know, more white people. 

 

But what Trump is not aware of is that first of all, the people of Norway have no desire to migrate to the US.  In Norway, they are overall wealthier than average Americans, they have 100% health care coverage, they are generally much better educated due to their free college education.  In addition, based on a national “Happiness Poll”, Norway is the “Happiest nation in the world”.

 

Trump now claims he only used “tough” language about this agreement, but that is not what the other meeting attendees have reported.  His reported comments seriously illuminate his real policy stance: Trump is rejecting the deal because it lets in too many people from what he thinks are “s---hole countries,” or it lets too many of them remain in the US.

 

The meaning of this is plain. Trump is trying to appease his base and he has claimed he objects to the lottery program because it admits terrorists.  But as usual, there is no proof offered for that claim.  Most of the former US terrorist attacks have been home-grown attackers, not foreign terrorists.  But Trump still objects to the deal reached because it still allows people from the “s---hole” countries, to remain.  Trump wants more funding for the border wall, which is symbolic for him, and that’s exactly the point.

 

As Frank Sharry of America’s Voice puts it, the wall is a “middle finger to Latin America,” a statement that “we don’t want your kind.” It’s a middle finger to Trump’s s---hole countries, but more to the point, it’s a statement that we don’t want the people coming from them.

 

In a now-infamous exchange, CNN’s Jim Acosta asked White House immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller whether Trump’s policies are designed “to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country.” Miller reacted with total outrage and repeatedly cast the goal as reducing the mere numbers of immigrants for protecting US workers from competition, which he said was in keeping with previous periods of lowering immigration.

It is very hard to disengage the goal of reducing the overall numbers of immigrant arrivals from the goal of shifting our current ethnic and racial mix. But Trump has now left no doubt that the real animating impulse is the latter.

 

The reaction from United Nations human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, was extremely blunt. He described Trump’s remarks as totally “racist.”

 

In El Salvador, the news of the comments quickly shot to the top of media websites.  In Haiti, people took to Twitter to share pictures of their country, brilliant green hills, palm trees in the sunset, and sparkling turquoise water.  In Africa, similar reactions celebrating the beauty of the continent’s countries.

 

It appears that we are only beginning to glimpse the damage that Donald J. Trump is doing to America’s standing in the world.

 

This is just the beginning folks…..please stay tuned.

 

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