Scatological comment projected on wall of Trump Hotel Saturday night, apparently by Robin Bell, who has been credited with similar acts previously. (Sorane Yamahira / Bellvisuals.com)

Robin Bell, who has previously projected messages critical of President Trump onto DC's Trump Hotel is credited with turning the presidential word choice of "shithole" into an editorial art installation on Saturday night. The word references countries from which immigration to America is undesirable in the view of the president and other immigration hardliners. The light show by the "projectionist provocateur" including other slogans about the Trump presidency.

The word was used to describe countries like Haiti, El Salvador and countries in Africa. Trump expressed his preference for people from countries like Norway.

Most Republicans have been mum about Trump's racist remarks but Utah Rep. Congresswoman Mia Love has joined Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake in condemning the conversation articulated by Dem. Sen. Dick Durbin and backed up by S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham, both senators in the meeting where Trump ambushed them by inviting immigration hardliners to hear the proposal worked out by a bipartisan group of three Democrat and three Republican senators. Graham said he would not comment further and had expressed his thoughts on Trump's comments directly to him in front of others. Graham's SC colleague Rep. Sen. Tim Scott said he was told the word "shithole" was used, presumably by Graham.

Rep. Mia Love, the first Haitian-American elected to Congress, said on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, "I can't defend the indefensible. You have to understand that there are countries that struggle out there. But their people, their people are good people and they're part of us. We're Americans."

"The (President's) comments are unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation's values," Love said in a statement Thursday night. "The President must apologize to both the American people and the nations he so wantonly maligned."

Nana Akufo-Addo, who assumed the presidency of Ghana last January, took to Twitter to denounce Trump's use of "shithole" to describe countries like his own. The shocked reverberations to Trump's comments have rocked the world of diplomats and ordinary citizens, many of who love America if not our president.

There's a note of irony in Trump's haughty views about places like Haiti. While Trump's all cash sales of his condos to Russians is well-established amid accusations of money laundering, even I didn't know that America's president personally handled the sale of a Trump Tower condo to the despised Haitian dictator Baby Doc.

Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier lead a reign of terror in Haiti, accused by Human Rights Watch in 2011 of selling dead Haitians' body parts to finance his high-flying lifestyle. The Daily Beast wrote about Trump personally handling the condo sale, noting that "the Stroock & Stroock & Lavan law firm—hired by the Haitian government to search out assets Duvalier had stolen from the Caribbean island-nation—only found out Duvalier owned Apartment 54-K because the dictator hadn’t paid his phone bill. The Haitian government put a lien on the property after he fled."

I've become very involved in this race, working w/women in Alabama. My moods are swinging from positive for Jones (who I've supported since the primary) to despair over the outrageous and untrue statements said about him. This morning's poll gives me hope because the sample is much larger, and it documents that women are significantly more likely to vote for Jones. Turnout among moderate Republican women, Dems, of course, and Alabama's black community are critical.

When working on my own mindset, I remember Va a month ago, where polls showed an even race, but the actual result was huge for Dems.

The beliefs of Roy Moore are so extreme that it astounds me that he could become a US senator. Forget the sexual harassment claims. Moore is a LEADER in the personhood movement, giving ALL legal rights of a grown woman with three kids to a fertilized egg. The state would govern pregnancy, protecting the rights of the embryo.

It's all terrifying -- so terrifying that I forced myself to become educated on the rare third-trimester abortion last night. Not the statistics, which are about 1% nationally and 3 in Alabama last year, but the procedure itself.

In the new poll from Post-Schar collab at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University , 53% of voters in the larger sample of 749 likely voters, said Jones, a former federal prosecutor who prosecuted the Klan for the murder of four little girls in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing , had higher standards or personal moral conduct than Moore. In contrast, about a third of likely voters said Moore, who has cast his campaign as a "spiritual battle" with heavy religious overtones, had higher moral standards.

Among the 1 in 4 voters who said the candidates' moral conduct will be the most important factor in their vote, Jones led, 67% to 30%.

Alabama is a hugely Republican state, and Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 28 points in the presidential election. But Democrats said they were more enthusiastic about turning out for the special election. By 47% to 38%, more Democratic-leaning voters than Republican-leaning voters said it was "extremely important" to vote in the election. Democratic-leaners were also 12 points more likely to say they were following the race "very closely," and 10 points more likely to say they were "absolutely certain to vote." Read on about the details of this very thorough, data-rich portrait of the race. ~ Anne