While he tried to dismiss the island nation in his remarks, history shows a long legacy of political and military intervention. US President Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to Haiti to restore order -- and the US occupied the island nation until 1934. As the years passed, the US feared that Germany would control the island nation because it saw it as a potential naval site, the State Department said. By 1914, several Haitian presidents had been assassinated or overthrown and President Wilson sent troops to restore order but ended up occupying Haiti. Then-President Bill Clinton sent a delegation in 1994 that reached a peace deal and restored Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

Source: CNN January 12, 2018 12:45 UTC