Trump and Buhari deflect awkward question
US President Donald Trump’s reported disparaging of African countries did not come up in his talks with Nigeria’s president, the two leaders have said.
Muhammadu Buhari sidestepped a reporter’s question about Trump’s alleged use of the term “shitholes” to describe certain developing nations.
In their White House news conference, Trump added: “We didn’t discuss it.”
The Nigerian was the first sub-Saharan African leader to be invited for talks with the Trump administration.
Buhari was asked during Monday’s joint press conference about a report in January that Trump had complained about immigrants coming to the US from “shithole countries”, specifically referring to Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations.
