Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Monday that a resolution censoring President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE for disparaging marks he reportedly made about Haiti, El Salvador and African countries is meant to put Congress on the record opposing racism.

“The goal is to put the Congress of the United States on record that we don’t approve of racism and that the president, when he makes these kinds of racist remarks, he’s not speaking for the people of the United States,” Nadler said on CNN’s “New Day."

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Nadler and Rep. Cedric Richmond Cedric Levon RichmondRep. Cedric Richmond set to join House Ways and Means Committee Biden campaign ratchets up courting of Black voters, specifically Black men Buttigieg, former officials added to Biden's transition team MORE (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Friday that they would unveil the resolution to censure Trump over comments that he reportedly made disparaging individuals from Haiti, El Salvador and other African countries during a closed-door meeting with lawmakers.

The Washington Post first reported on Thursday that Trump had described Haiti and other nations as “shithole” countries, expressing a preference for immigrants from Norway. Sen. Dick Durbin Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled Senate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Top GOP senator calls for Biden to release list of possible Supreme Court picks MORE (D-Ill.) backed up The Post's account on Friday.

The reported remarks have prompted fierce criticism from Democrats and some Republicans. Some Republican senators have disputed the accounts of Trump’s comments at the immigration meeting, however, saying he did not use the vulgar term described.

The president on Sunday denied that he is a racist.

“I am not a racist,” he told reporters in Palm Beach, Fla.

Neither the White House nor Trump has denied the “shithole” comment specifically.

Nadler said Monday that he would “absolutely” call Trump a racist, describing the latest reports as consistent with the president’s past behavior when responding to the violent clashes between white nationalists and protesters in Charlottesville, Va., last August.

“What he was clearly saying was, we don’t want black or brown people, we want white people coming here. And that’s straight racism,” Nadler said of the “shithole” comment.