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Trump’s latest slur

Posted by linkmeister on 11 January 2018, 8:26 pm

The only thing which surprised me about Trump calling Haiti and African nations “shitholes” was that he said it in front of people who have no reason to suck up to him. We’ve known he was a racist since the day he came down that escalator in 2015 and said about Mexicans ““They’re bringing drugs. …

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