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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) slammed Haiti on Tuesday, saying the country is covered with garbage and that conditions there are ¡°disgusting.¡±
Gaetz was defending President Donald Trump, who last week reportedly dismissed Haiti and African nations as ¡°shithole¡± countries while meeting with lawmakers to discuss immigration.
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Trump has denied the comments.
¡°I would not pick those terms, but I would say that the conditions in Haiti are deplorable, they are disgusting,¡± Gaetz told MSNBC¡¯s Chris Hayes. ¡°I mean, everywhere you look in Haiti, it¡¯s sheet metal and garbage when I was there.¡±
Earlier in the conversation, Hayes tried to engage Gaetz by asking how he¡¯d feel if someone used Trump¡¯s reported language to describe Florida.
¡°If I called ¨D and you¡¯ll forgive me for using the language of the president ¨D but if I called Okaloosa County a shithole, you¡¯d understandably be upset with that, right?¡± Hayes asked.
Gaetz, whose district includes much of Okaloosa County, replied:
¡°Yes; I could also prove you wrong, because I could bring you to Okaloosa County and show you that it¡¯s the home of the most beautiful beaches in America. I don¡¯t know that in Haiti they can make the same claim.¡±
Trump¡¯s comment set off protests by the Haitian-American community, including a demonstration outside Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Monday.
¡°I don¡¯t want my kids to grow up thinking their parents are from a shithole country,¡± protester James Leger said, according to NBC Miami. ¡°We¡¯re asking you to apologize to the Haitians.¡±
Another protester wanted to remind Trump that Haitian immigrants contribute to America.
¡°The president does not understand us,¡± Jean Bruny, a Haitian pastor in West Palm Beach, told the Palm Beach Post on Monday. ¡°We are not coming here to do any bad thing, we are coming here for a better life and to help our family in Haiti. We pay taxes, we buy houses, we contribute to the United States.¡±
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