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Ex-UK MP: Trump’s Comments on UK, Immigrants Expose ‘Ugly’ American Leadership

Shocker: US President Donald Trump has put his foot in his mouth. Two recent statements of his have attracted significant controversy: his cancellation of a long-planned visit to the UK due to his disapproval of a move of the US embassy, and his alleged comment that the US received too many immigrants from “shithole countries.”
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Brian Becker and John Kiriakou of Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear spoke to George Galloway, a former UK parliamentarian for both the Labour and Respect Parties.

​"There are many things to blame Obama for, but the new embassy south of the river, which Trump evidently thinks is a bit of an asshole part of town, is a ‘bad deal.' I don't care whether it's a good deal or a bad deal, but I do feel that we have been robbed of the opportunity to send a worldwide message of rejection of Donald Trump's foreign policies, of his endless stream of excretions over Twitter and of course his most recent racist outburst, which has rightly been condemned all over the world."

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Galloway then turned the conversation to American imperialism. "It's a good thing that the American leadership is as ugly as it currently is. It would have been worse if Hillary Clinton had been the American leader, because that would have an entirely unjustified veneer of respectability on a set of really ugly worldviews."

"I'm someone who's been organizing against American hegemony almost literally all of my life; my first demonstration was when I was 14 in 1968 against the war in Vietnam. As someone who's been at this for a very long time, I must tell you that those who've made a career out of regarding the United States as the leader of the free world must feel pretty foolish nowadays."

"The United States is not my leader, never has been my leader, still less my father. In encouraging people around the world to stand up for themselves, stand up to the United States hegemony, Donald Trump's done us all a favor."

Becker then discussed the troubled history between the US and Haiti, which goes back as long as either nation has existed. The island was under US occupation from 1915 to 1934, an occupation that saw several skirmishes between the US military and Haitian rebel groups. The US also enacted an embargo against the repressive military dictatorship that overtook the island in 1986.

"Donald Trump's words were unprecedentedly ugly," said Galloway, referring to Trump's alleged comment that Haiti, El Salvador and a number of African nations were "shithole countries." Trump denied making the comment. "But the United States' actions against Haiti over centuries, not years or decades, were even worse than the ugliest words that Donald Trump can summon up."

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