Senator Rand Paul: Immigration Compromise Can’t Happen if People Call Trump a Racist (Video)

Twitter Responds

Republican Senator Rand Paul joined NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday to defend Donald Trump’s racist remarks.

Thursday afternoon, reports surfaced that Donald Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries,” vocalizing his frustration about immigration. The president then suggested that the United States should “bring more people from countries like Norway.”

The commentary was confirmed by Senator Dick Durbin, who attended the meeting along with Lindsey Graham, who advised that he “said my piece directly” to Trump afterwards. Fallout has continued ever since.

Host Chuck Todd addressed the comments with the Kentucky Senator during Sunday’s interview.

“The only thing I regret from all of this, other than I think some people have gone completely bonkers with just ad hominem on the president,” Paul said, “but what I regret is I do want to see an immigration compromise.”

“And you can’t have an immigration compromise if everybody’s out there calling the president a racist,” he continued. “They’re actually destroying the setting, and he’s a little bit of it, they’re destroying the setting in which anything meaningful can happen.”

Watch:

“Well, and – that’s where I want to Segway,” Todd replied, subsequently quoting Donald Trump’s early AM tweet, only one part of his latest Twitter tantrum.

“I, as President, want people coming into our Country who are going to help us become strong and great again,” the president wrote, “people coming in through a system based on MERIT. No more Lotteries! #AMERICA FIRST”

Twitter was quick to weigh in on Paul’s Trump defense:

The full interview can be seen here, via NBC.

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