http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/01/26/haitian-president-says-trump-policies-spell-disaster-for-his-nation-n2407356
Remember when the Left got really mad at Donald Trump for calling nations like Haiti 's**tholes'? Media and celebrities said Haiti was a great nation (if you ignore the fact planes get shot at while landing at the airport, the cannibalism, and the poverty).
Now the president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council says Trump's policies are going to damage his country (the one the Left told us was just great and totally not a disaster).
The Associated Press (@AP) ~ Haitian leader says the Trump administration’s plans will be 'catastrophic' for his country
http://apnews.com/article/voltaire-haiti-pope-francis-vatican-ed83defc47478996b6c4133da233abb7?taid=67962ad815e6af0001b8a990&;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
More from the AP:
The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council said the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants and block refugees will be 'catastrophic' for Haiti.
Leslie Voltaire made the comment in an interview with The Associated Press in Rome on Saturday following a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. He visited the pope to ask for help for Haiti.
'I’m knocking on the doors of people who love Haiti. The pope loves Haiti, and he is eager to help,' Haiti’s interim president said.
The pontiff and Voltaire discussed the dire situation in Haiti where gangs have killed civilians and operate across the Caribbean nation with impunity. Half of Haiti’s 11.4 million people are already hungry, according to Voltaire, and losing humanitarian assistance will make the situation dramatically worse.
X users were not sympathetic.
Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) ~ Haiti doesn't have any leaders ...
Their last election was in 2016, and the winner was assassinated by gangs (and maybe his Prime Minister) in 2021.
The country has been ungoverned ... except by horrible gangs ... since.
You should know all this, you're @AP, but you pretend not to because you hate Trump.
Of course the AP knows this. They choose not to report it.
The AP chooses not to report it because ... wait for it ... it will show that Haiti is a veritable sh!thole.
Helvidius Priscus (@HelvidiusPrisc) ~ Returning all of the Haitian illegals, who are a supposed benefit to this country according to Democrats, is going to be catastrophic for Haiti somehow? I'm beginning to think that maybe they are not as much of a benefit as the Democrats told us.
Yeah ... because the Democrats did as they always do - they lied.
If they're a benefit to us, they should be a benefit to Haiti, no?
Yes, absolutely ... Haiti should be very glad to have them back if they were going to be such a godsend to us, right?!
TimOnPoint (@TimOnPoint) ~ More catastrophic that what Haitian leadership has produced? I doubt it. Nice gold chair ...
It is a nice gold chair.
Maybe he should sell it and help the poor people in his country, eh?
Or, better yet, maybe the Vatican should send over hundreds of millions of dollars in annual aid to Haiti, especially since Pope Jorge loves Haiti so much.
Or, even better yet still, maybe the Clinton Foundation can provide hundreds of millions of dollars from one of their slush funds to Haiti, eh?
Shooting News Weekly (@SN_Weekly_) ~ Given the unrelenting catastrophic history of his country, how will anyone be able to tell if anything Trump does results in catastrophe for the most notorious sh!thole in the western hemisphere?
We won't be able to tell.
Bleu Cheque (@VERBAL_CHANCLA) ~ Catastrophic because Haiti is a failed country? Not really my problem.
Not our problem.
Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) ~ Trump’s policies are going to ruin the Haitian utopia that existed until he took office.
"Haitian utopia" ...
Nailed it.
The Dank Knight (@capeandcowell) ~ If plans to help Americans is catastrophic to your country, then I don’t know what to tell you. Good luck.
Good luck, indeed.
Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) ~ My favorite part of this story is how the AP mixes tut-tutting about Trump referring to Haiti as a “shithole country” with descriptions of how there’s complete civil collapse in Haiti. I’m honestly surprised the author didn’t get whiplash from so many narrative reversals.
It really is spectacular.
Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) ~ How about “Be more like the Dominican Republic.” They are on the same freaking island.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Hispaniola. The border between the two countries is a mountain range that is guarded vigorously by the Dominicans against any entry into their country by Haitians.
Even the DR doesn't want to have anything to do with Haiti.
SteveAustinWI (@SteveAustinWI) ~ This dude loved the fact that he could just keep exporting his country’s problems to the U.S.
Lots of countries loved that. Now they don't get to do it anymore.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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