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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN's news coverage appropriately calls the president's tweets racist:
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump used racist language on Sunday to attack progressive Democratic congresswomen, falsely implying they weren't natural-born American citizens.
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Trump implied in the series of tweets that the congresswomen weren't born in America and sarcastically suggested, "they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."
Pelosi jumped to the defense of the congresswomen and condemned Trump's language. "When ��@realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to "Make America Great Again" has always been about making America white again," Pelosi tweeted. "Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power."
New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Luján, the assistant speaker of the House, echoed Pelosi's sentiments on Twitter Sunday: "A racist tweet from a racist president."
On "Fox News Sunday," Luján told Chris Wallace, "That's a racist tweet. Telling people to go back where they came from? These are American citizens elected by voters in the United States of America to serve in one of the most distinguished bodies in the US House of Representatives."
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/14/politics/donald-trump-tweets-democratic-congresswomen-race-nationalities/index.html
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Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It doesn't matter if a Representative is a birthright citizen or a naturalized citizen; they get to serve if they get more votes than anyone else in their district. That's probably the part that baffles. Needy Amin, that winning election by getting more votes.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)Germany threw Frederick Trump out for being a draft dodger - something Frederick's son and grandson have emulated in their adopted country.
Fred Trump, DJT's father, was so ashamed of his family's origin he claimed he was from Sweden. But then, he was arrested for parading around New York City in a white robe, so no wonder his son is a racist piece of trash.
drray23
(7,637 posts)Just calling the tweets racist does not go far enough. This afternoon on politics nation, rev. Sharpton went there and unequivocally said the president is a racist.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)the tweets, and him, racist.
It's good to see.