President Trump uses a "bad word" behind closed doors

President Trump used a "bad word" as a 3-year-old might describe it, when he spoke behind closed doors during the bipartisan immigration negotiations. 

He should not have believed anything he said off the record would not go on the record when Democrats and certain Republicans are in the room.

According to some who were there, and confirmed by Fox News, the president said, "Why are we having all these people from sh**hole countries come here?"

It isn't clear as to what context the words were said and what he was implying, but the mainstream media latched onto it in a microsecond and called his remark racist. 

Supposedly, Trump was referring to people from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Hondura and African countries in the temporary protected status program, but that is not a fact.

But the president could have meant the countries themselves are sh**holes, which is no big deal. Compared to the United States, Haiti, with a mean annual income of a little over $700 and a life expectancy a little over 60, is a sh**hole. 

If Trump meant the people from these countries are sh***y people, then that's racist and it's wrong. However, there is no indication that this is what he was saying or implying.

And we've all used that word before, so let's not pretend the word offends us. 

It isn't as if President Trump accidentally said, on an open mic, that passing the tax plan was a "big f**king deal," like someone else who said those words over Obamacare. 

It isn't as if President Trump called a Cambridge police officer "stupid" for arresting Prof. Henry Louis Gates even though the former president admitted he didn't know all the facts in the case.

But the left is completely appalled by President Trump's words.

Now Trump is denying he ever said them, and that, I believe is a mistake. He needs to walk them back and clarify what he meant, and hopefully he was referring to the countries as sh**holes, not the people, which is what I believe he meant because I don't see Trump as a racist.

Unfortunately, there are some followers of Trump who are racists, but the majority are simply people like myself who are fed up with the same old, same old.


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