Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said that Trump used term "shithole." What this big game of telephone misses is that it doesn't really matter whether Trump said "shithole" or "shithouse" or "craphole" or any of the various other derogatory names in that vein. Rather than say "shithole" or "shithouse," he referred to African or El Salvadoran immigrants coming into the US as hailing from "undesirable countries." But focusing on the specific words Trump used missed the broader -- and much more important -- point here. Trump's message could not be clearer: Why are we taking in immigrants from places primarily populated by black and brown people when we should be taking in more white immigrants?

Source: CNN January 15, 2018 15:58 UTC