The US President Donald Trump has denied claims that he is a racist despite calling African countries last week “shithole” during a meeting over immigration reforms in his country.
He reportedly made the comment in an outburst about immigrants from these countries in the White House. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Mr Trump said to lawmakers on Thursday, according to the Washington Post.
His comments attracted a lot of outrage from Africa and across the world with the African politicians responding angrily to Mr. Trump describing him as a racist although Mr. Trump denied on Friday using such derogatory words.
The Trump administration is trying to limit the number of family members of immigrants who enter the US. The administration also wants to end the protected status of thousands of immigrants already in the US.
Mr Trump told reporters that “I am not a racist. I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
That was his first time responding directly to the racism accusations.
President Trump before coming into office promised to deal with immigration and was holding series of meetings to agree on an immigration deal.
Source: Africafeeds.com
