Did Trump Say It? (S***hole Countries)

President Trump has recently been accused of making an offensive remark about developing countries, referring to them as "s***hole countries" during a meeting with Sen. Dick Durbin and other Congressional leaders. The Congressmen who were in the meeting all have different accounts of the event. In this video, I analyze the claims of Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, Sen. Tom Cotton, and Sen. David Perdue in light of where each stands on the immigration spectrum.

[BListHistory]

"he's my senator, I can make fun of him" hahaha

There's so many people trying to spin this thing for political reasons, it's refreshing hearing intelligent commentary on it. Thank you

[iammrbeat]

Great analysis, Tom. "Another teachable moment" lol What's sad to me is not whether or not the President said what's alleged, but the fact that it is believable that he WOULD say something like that.

[goldgabich]

Basically if you think Trump is racist, you’ll take his comments to be racist. If you don’t think he’s racist, you’ll think, while the comments are rude, in reality the counties, like Haiti, are not good places to live.

[GarnetCarmichael]

One thing you can expect from Trump, shocking or not is what he truly feels. You decide what he actually said but realize that he is the president, he holds the highest power of office in America. And he was the voter's choice. Live with it.

[decades]

Could you a video on the Ottomans? Anything at all about them would be great!

[matsigh]

This video turned out to be a lot more objective than I expected. I should never have misunderestimated you Tom. On a more serious note, I liked the video. It seems like there's a 50/50 chance of him saying it. If Trump said something that was "basically" the same as shithole, then the two Trump allies aren't wrong. That seems like the most likely option. No matter the exact wording used, I'd appreciate if the president had more respect for other countries. There's a weird similarity between this and the Logan Paul incident. A regular person showing a dead body on the internet is bad and disrespectful but because of Logan Paul's audience, both it's size and demographics, the incident was much worse. If a regular person called these nations "shithole countries", it may be disrespectful but it isn't entirely wrong. Because of Trump's audience (the entire world) and his influence it is much worse that he said this about other countries. He is being incredibly disrespectful and the leaders of other countries will remember this.

[MiguelBenitezJr]

I'm a fellow educator on YouTube. I appreciate your videos and appreciated this one as well. I like that you introduced a current event.

I do however think we want to be careful with saying something like "it's all subjective". It happening or not happening is not subjective but rather objective. We then subjectively decide which evidence we find most convincing.

[TD-tcdj]

Very objective, contemporary politics would be nice

[Vincentlreese]

Keep these current event videos going! Great resource for a younger teacher attempting to broach these topics with students.

[jean]

MR.Richey i gotta say, as a teenager, i am honestly impressed at your teaching method, usually i go to history channels ONLY to study for a test or school work but i cant help but watch your videos lol and I added you on Snapchat 😂 you explain things in a way that isn't boring like most historians.

[andrewellisor]

Just another reason, among the endless other reasons, to ignore politicians if youre looking for facts.

[aaronyanagi]

Good evening! Thanks for fantastic video! Seeing your Robert E Lee book behind you; a friend brought it to my attention that Alabama and Mississippi celebrate Robert E Lee day today, sharing it with MLK Jr. I was wondering about your thoughts on this practice and if you have an opinion about Confederate monuments. It'd be another fantastic video for a current POV discussion.

[PasMatic__PyrosLife]

Thanks for keeping me up on current events and for doing it in a concise manner.

[hazedood]

Great vid! Nice, balanced approach to analyzing political/historical "hearsay" - as well as a teachable moment that history, in and of itself is NOT an exact science... nor is history about, necessarily bring debates to conclusions as it is about shedding as much light as possible on all sides of the debate.

We just started the new semester at my (block) school - and we'll be doing DBQ training shortly. This will be used.

[atestring]

If Trump used the word it should have been used about Lindsey Graham

[martell]

If Trump didn’t say it, why wouldn’t he just say, “I didn’t say that.”? I believe he did say it. And so what?

[isaacj]

Let's be honest, even before the earthquake Haiti was a disaster: Kidnapping capital of the world, poverty rivaling nearly any 3rd world country you can think of.. apart from using politically correct language, what else would you call a country like that? It's not necessarily a reflection on Haitians in general ; I know many Haitian immigrants in my local area and honestly, they're some of the most honest, hard working people I know. But if we're being honest, Trump's description of their country at present is accurate.

[JohnC-]

Hey tom.. Loved the way you broke down the argument and also for keeping an open ended conversation. Fantastic and thumbs up.

[TheNatalie]

If he didn't why not just straight up deny it (the senators), no need to entertain the thought if that wasn't truly the case

[thewallstreetjournal]

I don't see the problem, with this.

If their country's were so great they would simply stay were they are.
I think everyone knows this.
The outrage seems insincere.