Trump is an oaf, a bigoted blowhard, even a monster, and it should be no surprise that his comments are totally un-presidential. But all this self-righteous in

Trump is an oaf, a bigoted blowhard, even a monster, and it should be no surprise that his comments are totally un-presidential. But all this self-righteous indignation is a bit much. The simple truth is that some countries can indeed be fairly described as "shitholes", and rarely is it down to just poor weather or ugly landscape. This article seems to focus exclusively on making out Haiti, and other poor counties, to be the victims of evil wealthy western powers, but there are usually many factors affecting wealth and poverty, including climate, location, natural resource wealth. Of course colonialism and "western imperialism", globalization, geo-politically induced instability and conflict, etc, are definitely huge factors, and very often cited as here, but I think another large, and often ignored factor, is the society itself; the culture, government, institutions, and civil society and community spirit (or lack thereof) that the people of that country build for themselves. Not that I've been to Haiti, I'm sure it's as good a place as anywhere if you ignore the lack of "development".