This is not the first time President Donald Trump has responded to charges of racism and prejudice. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Trump: 'I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed'

President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he is the "least racist person you have ever interviewed," after lawmakers said he referred to some foreign countries as "shitholes" during a bipartisan immigration meeting last week.

"No, no, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed," Trump said in Florida, according to a pool report. "That I can tell you.”


Critics of the president seized on reports that Trump questioned why the U.S. admits people from what he called "shithole" countries and said he would prefer more immigration from places like Norway. The White House has not denied that he used the term, but Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), who attended the meeting in question, said they didn't recall Trump making such a comment. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) told a newspaper that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who also attended the meeting, told him the reports were accurate.

This is not the first time Trump has responded to charges of racism and prejudice.

Last February, the president said during a press conference at the White House that he was "the least anti-Semitic person you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person."