Politics & Government
Ohio Senators Blast President Trump's Comments On Congresswomen
The president told four congresswomen of color to leave the U.S.
Senator Sherrod Brown didn't mince words when responding to President Donald Trump's incendiary Tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to leave the U.S.
In a blunt Tweet of his own on Monday, Brown said, "President Trump’s comments are racist and un-American." Brown's colleague from Ohio, Senator Rob Portman, a Republican, issued a statement calling the president's comments "divisive, unnecessary and wrong."
The Ohioans' strong rebuke followed Trump's comments telling four lawmakers to go back to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came." However, the four congresswomen he was likely referring to are all U.S. citizens and all but one of the women was born in America.
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Trump was referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, from New York, and her colleagues Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Only Omar, from Somalia, is foreign-born, the Associated Press noted.
Brown and Portman weren't the only politicians that pushed back against Trump's rhetoric. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump is trying to "make America white again." While Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican, called the remarks "racist and disgusting."
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Trump doubled down on his attacks this week, saying the four congresswomen were "pro-Al Qaeda" and "anti-American." He issued another Tweet on Tuesday morning, saying,
Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019
“We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country, they’re calling the guards along our Border (the Border Patrol Agents) Concentration Camp Guards, they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamin’s,....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019
....they are Anti-Semitic, they are Anti-America, we don’t need to know anything about them personally, talk about their policies. I think they are American citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting, that the American people will reject......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
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