Raser’s Edge:  A “house” by any other name is still a “hole.”

One of the back flips congressional Republicans are jumping through to defend Trump’s vulgar, racist remarks about Haiti, San Salvador and African countries is whether he said “shithole” or “shithouse.”

For Trump apologists this seem to imply some subtle linguistic difference which renders “shithouse” less offensive than “shithole.”  Since Trump’s remark has drawn such wide spread condemnation as racist, the Republicans have come up with a nutty way of saying the remark was not racist.  They are now contending Sen. Durbin who reported Trump’s comments, did not hear it correctly and what Trump really said was the countries were actually “shithouses” and not “shitholes.”

Evidently according to Republican-think “shitholes” can be taken as a slur on the black people who live there, but “shithouse” just derides the country so that is not racist.  So Trump is not racist because he actually used the term “shithouse.”

Republicans Cotton and Perdue who were at the meeting, initially said they did not recall the President saying these comments “specifically.”  Then evidently their memories improved and they recalled Trump saying “shithouse” not “shithole.”

Reaction around the world has been that America is now a country where shit happens because we elected a shithead.