January 11, 2018: Trump Doesn't Want People from Shithole Countries Coming Here

 

1/11/18: President Trump’s morning gets off to a solid start. At 6:33 he is already hard at work, tweet-slamming Hillary. Ten minutes later he cites positive news from a Quinnipiac poll: “…66% of people feel the economy is ‘Excellent or Good.’ That is the highest number ever recorded by this poll.” 

Unfortunately, the Tweeter-in-Chief lacks the attention span to study the poll or he’s being devious in what he passes off as truth. 

 

“The spirit of thuggery, crookedness and dictatorship.” 

You can study the numbers yourself if you don’t see the point. A few additional observations from the same poll: 

By a 57-40 percent margin, American voters say Trump is “not fit to be president.” 

Sixteen percent of voters give the president an “A” for his first year! Yay, Trump! Sadly, 39 percent give him an “F.”

 

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IF TRUMP somehow happened to pick up a copy of The New York Times he might feel a little worse than he already does. In a Times review of David Frum’s book, Trumpocracy, The Corruption of the American Republic, one learns that Frum, a conservative, warns that the Trump administration has “imported the spirit of thuggery, crookedness and dictatorship into the very core of the American state.”  Trump has instituted a “regime of deceit and brutishness.” 

Even assuming Trump doesn’t read any books and won’t read Frum’s, the day only gets worse. In an afternoon meeting with members of both political parties, discussion turns to renewal of DACA and comprehensive immigration reform. Senators Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin suggest extending protection to various immigrant groups, including people from El Salvador, Haiti, and Africa. 

The president gets frustrated, as he often does. His emotions boil up. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he asks. “Why do we need more Haitians?” he wonders, hearing they’d be protected under the bipartisan deal. “Take them out!” 

What would be great? Less Haitians and, according to Trump, more Norwegians! 

The White House does not initially deny the report about what he said.

Haitian mural in Miami.