Trump says "shithole," internet explodes

I see where President Mountain Dew Coma…. oh sorry, I meant President Trump, has referred to the homelands of some of the huddled masses yearning to be free as “shithole” countries.

What’s the problem? They are shithole countries.

A more productive discussion might focus on the reasons why those countries are shitholes.

Take Libya for example. Who can doubt that Libya today is a shithole by any metric? But a mere seven or eight years ago Libya was by far the most successful nation state in all of Africa. Who made it the shithole it is today?

Hint; it wasn’t the Libyans.

Iraq’s pretty much a shithole too, isn’t it? Did the Iraqis make their country a shithole, or did they have help from outside?

We could go down the list of shithole countries one by one and analyse why they are shitholes, and believe me, we’d spend a lot of time discussing American foreign policy.

The irony is that the Exceptional Nation is itself becoming quite a shithole. I’ve known America first-hand from the sixties right up until they said I had to get a passport to catch a Sabres game. Across those fifty years I met many fine Americans, but it was also plainly obvious that the Exceptional Nation was inexorably sliding towards shitholedom.

Are we there yet?