ARTICLE: Hollywood Stars React to Donald Trumps Offensive Comments About African and Central American Nations
by Sorahya Lamothe, Daily Pop News
January 12, 2018
The president used derogatory language regarding Haiti, El Salvador, and some African countries during a meeting Thursday about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to the Washington Post, 2 sources who attended the meeting said Trump questioned “Why are we having all these people from s**thole countries come here?…Why do we need more Haitians?” According to Senator Durbin who was an attendee at the meeting confirmed that the president did indeed use crude expletives and said “in the course of Trump’s comments, he said things that were hate-filled, vile, and racist.”
Celebs from John Legend, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Maher, & Arsenio Hall, to journalist Anderson Cooper reacted to the recent comments:
On Friday, Trump denied making the ‘s**thole countries’ comment saying ” the language used by meat the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made — a big setback for DACA!” via Twitter. Trump also tweeted denial of distasteful comments towards Haitians saying:
