Tomi Lahren faces Twitter backlash after defending Trump’s ‘shithole’ comments

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Twitter users tore into Republican commentator Tomi Lahren on Friday for defending President Trump after he told senators that some African nations are “shithole countries.”

During a bipartisan immigration meeting on Thursday, Trump reportedly grew frustrated over the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from those nations and asked the room: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”

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