Trump/Buhari Meeting: US Government Warns Against Killing Of Christians

Buhari and Trump

*Trump Tasked Buhari To Protect Civilians Of All Faiths

The United States President, Donald Trump, has warned the visiting President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, that the US government would no longer tolerate the on going killings of Christians.

Trump and Buhari held a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House.

According to the US President, “We’ve had serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed.” “We’re going to work on that problem and working on that problem very, very hard.”

Trump emphatically said he hoped the Nigerian authorities would “protect innocent civilians of all faiths, including Muslims and including Christians”.

Further, Trump said he hoped that Nigeria would relax trade barriers between the US and Nigeria to allow import of American agricultural produce.

However, the reported disparaging of African countries did not come up in his talks with Nigeria’s president, the two leaders have said.

Muhammadu Buhari sidestepped a reporter’s question about Mr Trump’s alleged use of the term “shitholes” to describe certain developing nations.

In their White House news conference, Mr Trump added: “We didn’t discuss it.”

Buhari was asked during Monday’s joint press conference about a report in January that Mr Trump had complained about immigrants coming to the US from “shithole countries”, specifically referring to Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations.

The Nigerian president diplomatically replied: “I’m not sure about, you know, the validity of whether that allegation against the president is true or not.

“So the best thing for me is to keep quiet.”

Mr Trump did not deny he had used the term in his own reply.
Trump said: “The Nigerian president knows me and he knows where I’m coming from.”

“And you do have some countries that are in very bad shape and very tough places to live in.”

Mr Trump took the opportunity to rail against US immigration laws, calling them “obsolete”, “weak” and “pathetic”.

“Our immigration laws in this country are a total disaster,” he said, renewing calls for a border wall.