House Votes To Condemn Trump's 'Racist' Comments

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump's remarks against a group of four Democratic congresswomen as racist.

The move comes after Trump on Tuesday urged fellow Republicans to stick by him and "not show weakness" in opposing the House resolution to condemn his tweets. The president previously urged four congresswomen of color to return to their countries. His comments, he insisted, "were NOT Racist."

"The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show 'weakness' and fall into their trap," Trump tweeted.

"I don't have a Racist bone in my body!" he wrote.

Trump doubled down, writing: "If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!"

“I know racism when I see it, I know racism when I feel it, and at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism,” said Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, an icon of the civil rights movement.

Some Republicans were just as adamant in their defense of Mr. Trump: “What has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism,” said Representative Dan Meuser, Republican of Pennsylvania. “This ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California called the measure "all politics" and said he would vote against it.

The measure, which is four pages long, traces the country's history of welcoming immigrants from colonial times and includes an entire page of quotes from Republican President Ronald Reagan, The Associated Press reported. During Reagan's final days in office, he said if the U.S. shut its door to new arrivals, its "leadership in the world would soon be lost."