political prominence by questioning whether the first black president was really an american, who kicked off his campaign by calling mexicans rapists, and who as president said that there were good people among the nazis who marched in charlottesville, and who killed a woman by ramming her with their car. that man, donald trump, during a meeting in the oval office, inside the white house, did the least-surprising thing of his presidency today. both nbc news, which cites a democratic aide, and washington post, which broke the story and has two sources report trump became frustrated when lawmakers proposed reinstating protections for immigrants from haiti and from amp can countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal. the post reports el salvador was also among the nations mentioned. the trump administration had moved in recent months to end such protections after lawmakers made their proposal the post reported trump said, why are we having all these people from shithole coun
located in south america just off the caribbean in africa, just off the caribbean and from africa. parts of the world that presumably, according to the president of the united states, you will find shithole countries from which the united states should not accept immigrants. the breaking news out of washington, d.c. should come as no surprise to any american but should be embarrassing to every american. this afternoon the man who was elevated to the presidency of the united states, trump, who was sued by the nixon administration in the 1970s for refusing to rent apartments to african-americans, who rose to political prominence by questioning whether the first black president was really an american, who kicked off his campaign by calling mexicans rapists, and who as president said that there were good people among the nazis who marched in charlottesville, and who killed a woman by ramming her with their car. that man, donald trump, during a meeting in the oval office, inside the white h
bigotry. this whole thing of i remember when i started attacking him on the birther issue, saying it was race-based. he got angry. and met with me and said, you re calling me a racist. i said, i didn t call you a name, i m saying what you re doing is racism. he later lied and said i apologized for calling him a racist. i got on tv before he could and said that wasn t the discussion. but we ve got this flexible definition about what a racist is. do you have to spray paint the n word in the oval office or have a hood in the lincoln bedroom to be a racist? if you advocate everything whites-only, bring me the norwegians, disparage at every opportunity, whether charlottesville, whether it s immigration policy, every opportunity you disparage people of color, you are dealing from a
cbc chairman cedric rich man of louisiana, whose population largely was drawn from haiti over overthrowing the napoleonic government, president trump s comments are another indication of his racially ignorant views. it reinforces concerns we hear every day that make america great again is code for make america white again. we ve been saying this a long time. the president is a white supremacist. we heard in charlottesville. our president is a terrorist sympathizer. our president is a clear and present danger to nonwhite people in america. it s that simple. there s no reason to pretend that s not what s going on. what s important is not just how his heart feels. i ve never cared about that and that s not what s important. this manifest in policy, this manifest in judicial policy, this manifest ins in immigration policy, this manifests in how this administration has dealt with american citizens this puerto rico who are dying because they don t consider them
bedroom to be a racist? if you advocate everything whites-only, bring me the norwegians, disparage at every opportunity, whether charlottesville, whether it s immigration policy, every opportunity you disparage people of color, you are dealing from a racist and bigoted point of view and the danger is that he is now putting that into policy in america. so let s not act like that s just trump we can know how he is. he is building this into the very fabric of policy in this country. and we need to en masse, we need to martin luther king s birthday is being celebrated monday. and i ve been on the phone all day putting together civil rights and human rights and immigration leaders. there needs to be some mass action. we need to really start targeting a lot of these senators. i want to know who was in the room, what did they say? dr. king said that you judge the character of a man or woman by