Trump: Nigerians in America never go back to their huts in Africa

US President Donald Trump remarked in June that Nigerians never go back to their huts once they set foot on the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, December 23.

Trump also reportedly remarked that foreigners from Haiti “all have AIDS,” with the New York Times quoting two separate sources close to the White House meeting confirmed this claim.

The New York Times report says Trump made these remarks during a meeting at the White House, in which the American president was “plainly enraged” at the fact that many foreigners had flooded into the US despite federal officers being sent to the nation’s airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries.

“Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office,” the New York Times says.

On Haiti, the president went further.

“Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.”

According to the report however, the White House has denied President Trump used the word “huts” or “AIDS” to describe people from any country with several other participants from the meeting also telling the New York Times they did not recall the US president making the remarks attributed to him.

“While the White House did not deny the overall description of the meeting, officials strenuously insisted that Mr. Trump never used the words “AIDS” or “huts” to describe people from any country.” the New York Times adds.

“Several participants in the meeting told Times reporters that they did not recall the president using those words and did not think he had, but the two officials who described the comments found them so noteworthy that they related them to others at the time.”