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Diplomats scramble to contain outrage over Trump’s remarks
By JOSH LEDERMAN and JONATHAN LEMIRE
金曜日に、米国の外交官等は大慌て：トランプ大統領んのハイチやアフリカ諸国への
シットホール発言、英国大使館と訪英キャンセル問題などのダメコンで・・

WASHINGTON (AP) ? American diplomats scrambled Friday to salvage their nation’s
bonds with Africa, Haiti and even the celebrated “special relationship” with
Britain after President Donald Trump, in the span of a few hours, deeply
offended much of the world with the most undiplomatic of remarks.

Trump’s description of African nations as a “shithole” and other inflammatory
comments became the latest and perhaps most direct test of whether America’s
global partnership can withstand its president’s loose lips. In Washington
and far-flung foreign capitals, U.S. officials launched into urgent cleanup mode.

As world leaders denounced the comments as racist, Trump’s ambassadors to Botswana
and Senegal were both summoned to explain his remark, as was the top U.S. diplomat
in Haiti, where there is no ambassador, State Department officials said. In
addition to the Africa slur, Trump during a meeting Thursday with lawmakers
questioned why the U.S. would need more Haitian immigrants.

The White House, too, was reeling from the fallout. Staffers fanned out to do
television appearances in support of Trump and reached out to Republicans on
Capitol Hill to coordinate damage control.
Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein, in charge of U.S. public diplomacy, said
Trump has the right to “make whatever remark he chooses,” calling it the benefit
of being president. He said Trump’s comments notwithstanding, it was diplomats’
obligation to send the message to other countries that the United States cares
“greatly about the people that are there.”