MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson dusted off a well-known quote from President Trump and called the United States a “s-hole country” while discussing the coronavirus pandemic.
Robinson, who also works as an associate editor for the Washington Post, said on Tuesday that the U.S. has become the country from which no other countries want guests. He noted that several prominent countries have forbidden travel from the U.S. because of the high rate of infection of COVID-19 in the nation.
“Never in my life, in my wildest imagination, did I think we could conceivably be in this position. And we don’t have to be. It didn’t have to be this way. We could have done what other developed countries did. We could have properly shut down the economy, we could have driven the infection rate very low, and by now, we would be cautiously reopening, and we’d have a caseload that was similar to those of other — of the rest of the world, basically, because we can’t go anywhere,” Robinson said on Morning Joe.
“And Donald Trump didn’t do that because he thought the virus was a hoax or he didn’t understand it or he confused World War I and World War II and 1917. Whatever. It’s just appalling and shocking really that we’re in this position. But this is where we are. We are pariahs. We are the s-hole country that nobody wants people from. That’s us now,” he added.
Host Joe Scarborough agreed and said the U.S. was in a “Third World condition” because of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Donald Trump’s ignorance of medicine, Donald Trump’s ignorance of epidemiology, Donald Trump’s refusal to listen to his experts have put us in this position,” Scarborough said.
Trump reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and several African countries as “shithole countries” during a meeting with lawmakers in 2018.
