After US President Donald Trump called a number of Arab nations "shithouse countries" on Saturday, his newly minted adviser on Arab-American affairs said the US president has since promised he wouldn't do it again.
"Libya, Yemen, Haiti, Somalia. Remember what I called them? Shithouse countries," Trump told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Perry, Georgia, where he is drumming up support for Republican candidates ahead of the 3 November midterm elections.
He added that the countries are "terror-infested".
"Why do we always have to take people from shithouse countries? Why can't we take people from like, well, Norway, Sweden? Why not Denmark?"
Amer Ghalib, his Yemeni-born adviser, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday that he "contacted the president via text message" to express his "dismay and rejection of those remarks".
He said he later met with the president ahead of his rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday, and "reiterated my request".
"He expressed understanding of the situation and pledged to address the issue and ensure it does not recur," Ghalib added.