President Donald Trump has denied he is a racist in response to controversy over his recent remarks. I'm not a racist. I'm the least racist person you have ever interviewed. That I can tell you,' he told reporters in Florida on Sunday, as he was on his way to dinner with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
It marks the president's first direct response to accusations of racism that have dogged him since he allegedly asked 'Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?' in an Oval Office meeting about immigration on Thursday.
Trump has denied using that language, however a Democrat senator present at the meeting insists he did. A Republican senator present backed the president. Trump was reportedly speaking about Haitians and citizens of various African nations, and asked why the US doesn't welcome more immigrants from countries like Noway instead.
Trump on Sunday again denied making the statements attributed to him, but didn't get into specifics about what he did or did not say.
'Did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments?' he asked. 'They weren't made.'
The alleged remarks brought down furious condemnation on Trump from Democrats and media talking heads.
Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, told CNN 's Erin Burnett on Friday, 'We know he's a racist, he's demonstrated that... he's a racist both in his actions and his words. Johnson said that the language Trump reportedly used hearkens back to the '50s and '60s, it is the language of a Ross Barnett and a George Wallace.'
He added that the issue will help to motivate African-American voters in the 2018 mid-term elections.
Trump repeatedly told voters he is not a racist leading up to his 2016 election.
The president claimed in a tweet on Friday morning that the widely reported 'sh**hole' comments he is said to have made Thursday were not correct.
'The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used.'
In the press scrum on Sunday, Trump added that he was 'ready, willing and able' to reach a deal to protect immigrants brought to the United States as children
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