Donald Trump raises racist remarks against female Democrats, tells them to go back to 'crime-infested places they came from’

Starkly injecting race into his criticism of liberal Democrats, US President Donald Trump said Sunday that four congresswomen of colour should go back to “broken and crime-infested” countries y came from, igring fact that all of women are American citizens and three were born in U.S. His attack drew a searing condemnation from Democrats who labelled remarks racist and breathtakingly divisive.

Following a familiar script, Republicans remained largely silent after Trump’s morning brosides against four women. But president’s nativist tweets caused Democrats to set aside ir internal rifts to rise up in a united chorus against president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump wants to “make America white again.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, after jousting for days with Pelosi, said Trump “can’t conceive of an America that includes us.”

Trump, who has a long history of making racist remarks, was almost certainly referring to Ocasio-Cortez and her House allies in what’s become kwn as “ squ.” ors are Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Only Omar, from Somalia, is foreign-born.

Ocasio-Cortez swiftly deunced his remarks. “Mr. President, country I ‘come from,’ & country we all swear to, is United States,” she tweeted, ding that “You rely on a frightened America for your plunder.” Omar also dressed herself directly to Trump in a tweet, writing: “You are stoking white nationalism (because) you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled nda.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of House Democratic Caucus, summed up Democratic response: “Racial arsonist strikes again. Shut. Your. Reckless. Mouth.”

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With his tweet, Trump inserted himself furr into a rift between Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez, just two days after he offered an unsolicited defence of Democratic speaker. Pelosi has been seeking to minimize Ocasio-Cortez’s influence in House Democratic caucus in recent days, prompting Ocasio-Cortez to accuse Pelosi of trying to marginalize women of colour.

“She is t a racist,” Trump said of Pelosi on Friday.

On Sunday, Trump’s tone took a turn.

“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in world (if y even have a functioning government at all), w loudly and viciously telling people of United States, greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” he tweeted.

“Why don’t y go back and help fix totally broken and crime-infested places from which y came. n come back and show us how it is done.”

He ded: “se places need your help bly, you can’t leave fast eugh. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”

attacks may have been meant to widen divides within Democrat caucus, which has been riven by internal debate over how far left to go in countering Trump and over wher to proceed with impeachment proceedings against president. Inste, president’s tweets, which evoked trope of telling black people to go back to Africa, brought Democrats toger.

“Let’s be clear about what this vile comment is: A racist and xephobic attack on Democratic congresswomen,” tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate.

Ar 2020 contender, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, tweeted at president: “This is racist. se congresswomen are every bit as American as you — and represent our values better than you ever will.”

Few Republicans weighed in on president’s comments. Congressional leers, including Senate Majority Leer Mitch McConnell, did t respond to requests for comment, r did Sen. Tim. Scott of South Carolina, only Republican black senator.

Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in a previously scheduled appearance on “Face Nation” on CBS, said only: “You’re going to have to ask president what he means by those specific tweets.”

Shortly after tweets, and a later presidential post defending harsh scenes at a border detention facility where hundreds of migrant men are being held in sweltering, foul-smelling conditions, Trump left White House to go golfing at his Virginia club.

Trump appeared unbowed Sunday night when he returned to Twitter to say it was “so s” to see Democrats sticking up for women. “If Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behaviour,” he tweeted, “n we look even more forward to seeing you at ballot box in 2020!”

It was far from first time that Trump has been accused of holding racist views.

In his campaign kickoff in June 2015, Trump deemed many Mexican immigrants “rapists.” In 2017, he said y're good people on “both sides” of clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white supremacists and anti-racist demonstrators that left one counter-protester de. Last year, during a private White House meeting on immigration, Trump wondered why United States was mitting so many immigrants from “shithole countries” like African nations.

Repeatedly, Trump has painted arriving immigrants as an “infestation” and he has been slow in condemning acts of violence committed by white supremacists. And he launched his political career with false claims that President Barack Obama was t born in United States.

Despite his history of racist remarks, Trump has paid little penalty in his own party.

Though a bro array of Republicans did speak out against his reaction to Charlottesville, y have largely held ir tongues orwise, wher it be on a matter of race or any or Trump provocation. Fearful of his Twitter account and sweeping popularity among Republican voters, GOP lawmakers have largely tried to igre provocative statements.

Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic presidential hopeful from California, tweeted, “Let’s call president’s racist attack exactly what it is: un-American.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, was born in Bronx, New York, and raised in suburban Westchester County.

Pressley, first black woman elected to House from Massachusetts, was born in Cincinnati.

Omar, first Somali native elected to Congress and one of its first Muslim women, was born in Somalia but spent much of her childhood in a Kenyan refugee camp as civil war tore apart her home country. She immigrated to United States at 12, teaching herself English by watching American TV and eventually settling with her family in Minneapolis. Tlaib was born in Detroit.

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