Tag: racist

People On Twitter Tell Trump No One In Norway Wants To Come To His ‘Shithole Country’

The following article by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman was posted on the Huffington Post website January 11, 2018:

After President Donald Trump made racist remarks lamenting immigrants coming from “shithole countries” like Haiti and nations in Africa rather than from Norway, people on Twitter, including some actually from Norway, were quick to remark that, for many Norwegians, America may seem to be a bit of a shithole.

At a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” while arguing against restoring protections for immigrants from those regions. Continue reading “People On Twitter Tell Trump No One In Norway Wants To Come To His ‘Shithole Country’”

Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist’s Ouster

The following article by Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush was posted on the New York Times website August 14, 2017:

Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, has been criticized as being emblematic of the far-right nationalism that turned violent in Virginia last weekend. Can he salvage his role in the White House? By A.J. CHAVAR and CHRIS CIRILLO on Publish Date August 14, 2017. Photo by Al Drago/The New York Times.

Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him.

For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr. Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-face for more than a week with a man who was once a fixture in the Oval Office, according to aides and friends of the president. Continue reading “Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist’s Ouster”