{"id":454918,"date":"2018-01-13T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/13\/shithole-comment-ghana-wont-accept-your-insults-akufo-addo-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:22:37","slug":"shithole-comment-ghana-wont-accept-your-insults-akufo-addo-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/13\/shithole-comment-ghana-wont-accept-your-insults-akufo-addo-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shithole comment&#8217;: Ghana won&#8217;t accept your insults &#8211; Akufo-Addo to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo has slammed US President Donald Trump over his loose talk, saying\u00a0Ghana will not accept his insults.<\/p>\n<p>The eccentric US President has been branded a shocking and shameful racist after he in a semi-public meeting described African nations, as well as Haiti and El Salvador as \u201cshitholes\u201d\u00a0and questioned why so many of their citizens had ever been permitted to enter America.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump\u2019s uncouth statement has shocked the world with US diplomats around the world being summoned for formal reproach in countries they serve.<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly-worded statement, the UN said it was impossible to describe his remarks as anything other than racist, while the Vatican decried Trump\u2019s words as \u201cparticularly harsh and offensive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-nation\u00a0African Union\u00a0said the remarks were \u201cclearly racist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump initially allowed reported accounts of his comments to go unchallenged, but went into damage limitation mode on Friday, insisting he had not used derogatory words \u2013 but admitting that the language he had used at a meeting with Senators on immigration was \u201ctough\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo Addo in a Tweet condemned Mr Trump, adding that Ghana will not countenance insults even if it\u2019s coming from a President of a friendly country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe language of US President Donald Trump that the African continent, Haiti and El Salvador are \u2018shithole countries\u2019 is extremely unfortunate. Ghana is certainly not a \u2018shithole\u2019 country. We will not accept such insults, even from a leader of a friendly country, no matter how powerful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131906\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Akufo-Tweet-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"254\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has slammed US President Donald Trump over his loose talk, saying\u00a0Ghana will not accept his insults. The eccentric US President has been branded a shocking and shameful racist after he in a semi-public meeting described African nations, as well as Haiti and El Salvador as \u201cshitholes\u201d\u00a0and questioned why so many of their citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":454919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}