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 admitted Tuesday that he used the slur “s---hole countries” to 

 during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term.

 making the contemptuous statement during a closed-door meeting, but on Tuesday, he showed little compunction reliving it during a 

. He went on to further disparage Somalia as “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Trump was boasting in his speech that he had last week “announced a 

, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries,” when someone in the crowd yelled out the 2018 remark.

 by people who were briefed on the Oval Office meeting.

“We had a meeting and I said, ‘Why is it we only take people from s---hole countries,’ right? ‘Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden?’” Trump told rallygoers.

“But we always take people from Somalia,” he continued. “Places that are a disaster. Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

The White House at the time did not deny Trump's remarks, but the president 

 the day after the news broke that “this was not the language I used.” He added that he 

“never said anything derogatory about Haitians."

Back in 2018, Trump's comments denigrating predominantly Black nations while seeking more migration from predominantly white countries were widely denounced as racist. Some congressional Republicans 

. Botswana’s government summoned the U.S. ambassador, and Senegal’s President Macky Sall said he was shocked, noting, “Africa and the Black race merit the respect and consideration of all.”

But since then, Trump has pushed past many norms and traditions of decorum that had guided his predecessors, both in his first term and in the years since. He often peppers his public remarks with curse words, and this year has 

 as cameras were rolling — on two separate occasions.

 on social media complaining about immigrants, he demeaned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, using a dated slur for intellectually disabled people. Asked by a reporter if he stood by a comment that many Americans find offensive, Trump was unrepentant. “Yeah. I think there’s something wrong with him,” he said.

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President Donald Trump admits he used the slur “s---hole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers to disparage Haiti and African nations. On Tuesday, he recalled the comment at a rally in Pennsylvania, despite previously denying it.

Trump once denied using this slur about Haiti and African nations. Now he boasts about it

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