SOURCE: Al Jazeera News
![US President Donald Trump before signing a proclamation to honour Martin Luther King Jr day in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 12, 2018 [Reuters/Joshua Roberts]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2018/1/12/4e5c674a655c42a0958f119167797592_18.jpg?resize=350%2C197 "Outrage from an African 'shithole' inhabitant")
US President Donald Trump before signing a proclamation to honour Martin Luther King Jr day in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 12, 2018 [Reuters/Joshua Roberts]
I heard last night that the President of the United States believes that, as an African, I come from a shithole country. Charming.
Donald Trump – despite his subsequent denials – apparently insisted in a White House meeting that people from “shithole” countries, by which he means Haiti and the entire continent of Africa, should not be encouraged or allowed to come to the United States. Norway is apparently still OK for him, so that’s a relief.