WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Donald Trump sought to quell a global firestorm over his reported denunciation of immigration from “shithole countries” – a slur slammed at home and abroad as racist.

The reported remarks – which drew unanimous condemnation from African nations at the UN and resulted in at least two US diplomats being called in by their hosts – are just the latest in a series of racially charged comments by the president.

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