President Trump referred to El Salvador, Haiti, and certain African nations as “shithole countries” this week in an immigration reform meeting with lawmakers, according to the Washington Post and the New York Times.

The responses to these reports have been negative. Very negative. The White House has done little to deny the story, and Republicans who were in the meeting have done nothing to disprove the allegations except to issue a weasely nondenial denial. As a consequence, the reactions to Trump’s remarks have grown angrier and angrier.