Trump Says Puerto Rico Was Never On His List of Shithole Countries

Donald Trump, speaking earlier today in a brief moment of lucidity, stressed that his 2018 list of ‘shithole countries’, did not contain Puerto Rico.

“If you remember back in 2018 when I actually listed the shithole countries,” he told Fox, “I said Haiti, El Salvador and the African countries? I never said Puerto Rico. Never said it.”

He was trying to distance himself from a ‘joke’ made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at his Madison Square Garden rally, calling the territory “a floating island of garbage”.

Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign later prompted widespread laughter when she told a press conference that “a joke like that doesn’t reflect the views of President Trump”.

Turning a deep shade of red, Alvarez only managed to prolong the laughter as she angrily repeated “it doesn’t, it really doesn’t!”