Should she tell them that President Donald Trump didn’t mean to include her family’s homeland of Somalia when he called Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “s---hole countries” Thursday? Should she lie and say the vulgarity was a misunderstanding? Should she just ignore it completely?
Looking at her babies, ages 12, 14 and 17, Hassan found it hard to do anything but simply tell them how she felt: “We are getting insulted.”
After fleeing a civil war in her country and making a new home in Utah, after spending nearly two decades in the United States and becoming a citizen, she did not expect that.