UN CONDEMNS TRUMP AS 'RACIST' FOR HIS 'S***HOLE COUNTRIES' COMMENT

UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said: 'If confirmed, these are shocking and shameful comments from the President of the United States. Sorry, but there is no other word one can use but racist.

'You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as s***holes whose entire populations, who are not white, are therefore not welcome.

'The positive comment on Norway makes the underlying sentiment very clear.

'Like the earlier comments made vilifying Mexicans and Muslims, the policy proposals targetting entire groups on grounds of nationality or religion, and the reluctance to clearly condemn the anti-semitic and racist actions of the white supremacists in Charlottesville - all of these go against the universal values the world has been striving so hard to establish since World War II and the Holocaust.

'This is not just a story about vulgar language, it's about opening the door wider to humanity's worst side, about validating and encouraging racism and xenophobia that will potentially disrupt and destroy the lives of many people.

'That is perhaps the single most damaging and dangerous consequence of this type of comment by a major political figure.'