While meeting with senators on immigration, Trump questioned why the United States would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “s---hole countries” in Africa, according to one participant and people briefed on the conversation.
His comments Thursday revived racism accusations against Trump, roiled immigration talks and set off international outrage that left some foreign journalists wondering how to express the offending word.
“We have dozens of language services at the BBC which today are all discussing the right way to translate into their own language the word ‘shithole’ for their millions of listeners,” Paul Danahar, the editor of the BBC’s North America bureau, tweeted Friday.