Donald Trump slammed as racist after ‘go back home’ tweets at Democrat congresswomen
- US President Donald Trump sparks yet another firestorm over his views on race and immigration
- He did not name the lawmakers in tweets, but in recent days he has disparaged several first-year House Democrats
US President Donald Trump was accused of being racist and divisive by many Democrats after suggesting that four female Democratic lawmakers, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, should return to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came”.
Three of the four women Trump was apparently referencing were born in the US; none is white.
The comments, made in a three-tweet string early Sunday, seem aimed at first-term Representatives Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
“The Squad”, as the progressive quartet is known, has been engaged in an intraparty dispute with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Trump said the lawmakers “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and should go back and help fix the countries and “then come back and show us how it is done”.
Trump later returned to Twitter to say it was “sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel”.