MA Senators Decry 'Racist' Trump, Encourage Fighting Back

BOSTON, MA — One Massachusetts U.S. Senator called President Donald Trump a "racist bully" and the other decried his "racist actions" in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast Monday morning. The comments come days after Trump allegedly used vulgar language to describe El Salvador and African nations and asked why America would want more Haitians.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a vocal longtime nemesis of Trump, called him a "racist bully" at a MLK Jr. Day breakfast at the South Boston convention center.

"Donald Trump is a racist bully and we know how to deal with bullies," Warren said, according to The Boston Globe. "We do not back down. We do not shut up. We fight back."

Sen. Ed Markey echoed Warren's sentiments.

"I am embarrassed by Donald Trump’s racist attitudes and comments," Markey said. "So what would Dr. King expect us to do in the face of this disregard for basic decency? I believe that Dr. King would want us to fight."

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Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, did not call out Trump directly. He did mention a famous King quote, though, saying, "There comes a time when silence is betrayal," according to the Globe.

Trump admitted to using "tough" language in the meeting, but said he had been misquoted. Some GOP senators have denied hearing Trump use certain specific words, while other Democratic senators have confirmed they heard it.

Trump himself denied being a racist Sunday.

"I'm not a racist," he said.

>>>Read the full Globe story here.

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Washington. From left, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Isaac Newton Farris Jr., nephew of Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)