Back in 2018, President Donald Trump disputed having used the epithet "shithole" to describe some countries whose citizens emigrated to the United States.

Nowadays, he embraces it and pushes his anti-immigrant and xenophobic tirades even further.

Case in point: during a rally in the northeastern state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday that was supposed to focus on his economic policy, the 79-year-old Republican openly ranted and reused the phrase that had sparked an outcry during his first term.

"We had a meeting and I said, 'Why is it we only take people from shithole countries,' right? 'Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden?'" Trump told his cheering audience.

"But we always take people from Somalia," he continued. "Places that are a disaster. Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden

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