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Trump the Least Racist Person?

Painting by Haitian artist Walter Mere

The president of America denies he's a racist after reports state that he described immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from "s***hole countries" on Sunday 14th January. Donald Trump took presidency little under a year ago, after announcing his candidacy on July 16th 2015. Within the short period Trump has been under political power, he has always been a controversial character and often taken to his favourite social media platform, Twitter, to share is thoughts and ideas with the world, to which they've generally divided the nation and the world.

The most recent controversial remark Trump has made which has caused outcry on social media, is referring to immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from "s***hole countries". This comment made by the president had lead South Africa to formally protest the remarks. As stated by CNN, "South Africa will issue a diplomatic protest to the United Sates Monday over US President Donald Trump's "shithole countries" comment according to its foreign ministry". The remark has have caused backlash from Twitter and society- especially Haitian and African communities. Following the criticism, Trump denied being a racist and even claimed, quite boldly, that he's "the least racists person"- this claim coming from a man who once referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as 'Miss Housekeeping' in 2016.

Trump supposedly made the comment during a White House meeting, although according to The Guardian Kirstjen Nielson, Trump's Homeland Security secretary, under oath testified that she "did not hear" Donald Trump use the term "s***hole" to describe Haiti and African countries. Kirstjen Nielson said she was unable to recall the specific language used by Donald Trump. There doesn't seems to be any definitive proof of Trump actually referring to immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from "s***hole countries". The fact that there isn't any evidence for Trump making these remarks must be taken into consideration, meaning they shouldn't be believed as being facts, and people have to consider the idea that he didn't make the remark.

Donald Trump has no ground to stand on when claiming one's self to not be racist after all of his nonsense demoting anyone not white (and American)- and the fact that his political campaign literally only depended on privileged and uneducated Americans sharing the same ignorant mind set as the clueless president. Personally, I believe that Trump has again only proven to the world that he is a terrible leader, but small minded idiots will carry on believing on every single word he utters. However, there is still the problem of there not being any evidence of the remarks being made and therefore i cannot call him a racist over the issue.

The article published by the Guardian about the topic represents Trump negatively, probably due to the newspaper having a left wing stance in politics, and Trump being rather right winged. The article only gives quotes from Trump himself, and from people who criticises Trump's comments and believe he is racist- which he insists he's not. The article gives a bias view on the subject; it should have included quotes and interviews from other people such as Kirsjen Nielson who debates the other side of the argument. However, other newspapers, which are more right winged, haven't wrote about the issue, such as The Sun.