WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release:

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Durbin: Trump's 2018 Racist Reference To "S-Hole" Countries Was An Embarrassment

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December 10, 2025

After nearly eight years, Trump admitted to using the slur "shithole countries" to denigrate Black immigrants during a meeting in the Oval Office, confirming Durbin's statement from that time