FCC getting complaints for coverage of Trump’s ‘shithole countries’ remark

Published January 13, 2018 12:01am ET



The Federal Communications Commission has received multiple complaints from viewers after some broadcasters did not censor certain expletives as they reported that President Trump reportedly called some nations “shithole countries” during a White House meeting with lawmakers Thursday.

As the lawmakers and Trump discussed a potential bipartisan immigration deal, Trump started to discuss immigration from African nations and reportedly asked why the U.S. is “having all these people from shithole countries come here?”

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