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Code Switch

The 'R-Word' In The Age Of Trump

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When Donald Trump allegedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and some African countries as "shitholes," we called his comments r-...rr-...really really vulgar. Why were we so afraid to call them racist?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just a real quick heads up, the following episode contains language that some folks may find offensive.

0:06.5

You're listening to Code Switch.

0:10.5

I'm Cat Chow and I want to play you a voicemail I got from a man named Apparent Lam.

0:16.5

Hi Miss Chow, I heard your reporting on President Trump's remarks and it was very bad reporting.

0:30.5

A few weeks ago, I got this email from my editor asking for a short news piece about Trump's language during a bipartisan oval office meeting about immigration.

0:39.5

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

0:42.5

Shit hole gate, also known as that time the President of the United States, Donald Trump allegedly called Haiti and some African nations shit holes or shit houses.

0:53.5

My assignment was to talk about how this fits in with all those other comments he's made about people of color and immigrants.

1:00.5

Cool, lots to choose from.

1:02.5

And here's Cat Chow reports this was one of many instances of the President making racially charged remarks.

1:08.5

This isn't the first time Trump has made denigrating remarks about people of color and immigrants.

1:14.5

According to news reports last year, Trump described Haitian immigrants as having AIDS and said that if the US accepted Nigerian immigrants,

1:22.5

they wouldn't quote go back to their huts.

1:25.5

And just months ago, after multiple hurricanes tore through Puerto Rico, leaving many there in need of aid, Trump insinuated they were lazy.

1:33.5

He tweeted that Puerto Ricans want everything to be done for them.

1:37.5

In 2015, one calling for a US Mexico border wall, Trump described Mexicans as rapists.

1:43.5

The President tweeted that he never said anything to a rockatory about Haitians in Thursday's meeting.

1:48.5

Cat Chow and PR News.

1:51.5

About an hour later, this was what was on my phone.

1:54.5

Journalist exposed him. Call him by who he is and what he does.

2:05.5

It is accurate.

2:07.5

Accuracy is what you're after. Call President Trump a racist cat. He is a racist.

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