Donald Trump tells non-white congresswomen he attacked to ‘apologise to America’

The comment comes a week after he sparked a firestorm of outrage by attacking the left-leaning lawmakers in a series of racially charged tweets

Analysts say he plans to make inflammatory attacks on the four women a centrepiece of his 2020 re-election strategy

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Published: 10:47pm, 21 Jul 2019Updated: 10:47pm, 21 Jul 2019

US President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Sunday on four Democratic congresswomen he launched xenophobic tweets against last week, demanding they apologise “for the horrible (hateful) things they have said”.

“I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our country,” Trump tweeted of ethnic-minority first-term Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.

“They should apologise to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak and insecure people who can never destroy our great nation!” the president tweeted.

The comments come a week after Trump sparked a firestorm of outrage when he attacked the left-leaning lawmakers in a series of tweets, saying they should “go back” to their countries of origin.

The group – all American citizens, three of whom were born in the United States – are of Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African-American descent.

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