After nearly eight years of denials, Donald Trump has publicly acknowledged using the offensive term he once insisted he never said.
During a recent rally in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, Trump openly revisited his infamous 2018 comments about immigration, confirming that he referred to several African and Caribbean nations with crude language while discussing U.S. immigration policy.
The original remarks were made during Trump’s first term in a closed-door White House meeting focused on immigration reform. Lawmakers were debating a bipartisan proposal that included protections for nearly 700,000 young immigrants covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, which Trump later dismantled.
At the time, Senator Dick Durbin, the only Democrat present, reported that Trump repeatedly used derogatory language when referring to countries in Africa and the Caribbean. According to Durbin, Trump complained that those countries were sending people the U.S. “didn’t want” and added that America did not need more immigrants from Haiti.
Trump strongly denied the account back then, claiming he was “the least racist person” anyone had ever interviewed and insisting his language had been misrepresented.
That denial unraveled last week.
While speaking to supporters, Trump began discussing immigration under the guise of economic policy. He announced what he called a “permanent pause” on migration from what he labeled “Third World” countries, listing Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and others.
When someone in the crowd shouted the infamous word, Trump responded, “I didn’t say it, you did,” prompting laughter. But moments later, he openly described using the term during the Senate meeting, saying he believed the discussion was off the record and that he was simply being “honest.”
Trump then repeated a familiar theme from 2018, questioning why the U.S. accepts immigrants from poorer nations instead of countries like Norway, Sweden, or Denmark. He went on to describe Somalia and similar nations as “filthy,” “dirty,” and crime-ridden, language that closely mirrors the original allegations he once denied.
Despite this on-stage confirmation, Trump’s allies attempted to dismiss the controversy. When asked for comment, White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson criticized the media for revisiting what she called an old narrative and reframed Trump’s remarks as a broader argument against undocumented immigrants who, in her words, “refuse to assimilate.”
The contradiction was difficult to ignore. Trump not only repeated the sentiment publicly but explained why he believed it was justified.
The same rally also featured familiar attacks on Democrats over inflation and cost-of-living issues. Trump claimed the word “affordability” itself was a political trick, calling it “a con job by the Democrats.”
Taken together, the rally offered a rare moment of clarity. What was once denied, deflected, and dismissed has now been openly embraced. For critics, it confirms long-standing concerns about Trump’s rhetoric on race and immigration. For supporters, it appears to be part of his appeal.
Either way, the record is no longer ambiguous.
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