Trump tweets racist attacks at progressive Democratic congresswomen
President Donald Trump used racist language on Sunday to attack progressive Democratic congresswomen, falsely implying they weren't natural-born American citizens.
Trump did not name who he was attacking in Sunday's tirade but earlier this week he referenced New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when the President was defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
We could ask how the author of this tirade knows who Trump was attacking, and hence how he knows they were native born, but what the heck.
The attack simply wasn't racist, though no doubt people whose animus toward the presumed targets, the soi-disant Squad, is racial were pleased with it.
Trump implied in the series of tweets that the congresswomen weren't born in America [one was not, and it might have been simply an error, given this president's high level of unconcern for facts] 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."
Update 07152019 1052 EDT
The Duce's attack was actually perfect from his point of view.
While not actually racist it was the loudest possible dog-whistle, which had three effects:
(1) pleasing lots of whites in and beyond his base, however faint or bright their stripes of racism,
(2) provoking furious charges of heinous racism from Democrats and woke types of whatever left persuasion, and
(3) salting the wounds of division between the Squad and their squaddie allies and supporters on the one side and the (relatively) centrist and moderate Democrats, whether officials or voters, on the other.
And this last, of course, is exactly the intention of his repeated public rises to the defense of Speaker Pelosi against the uppity insolence of the Gang of Four Foreigners Who Hate Our Country and, uh, white people.
A good weekend for Bozo, I'd say.
If Joe B falls over, withdraws for health reasons, or is bumped by the primary process, who among us is still confident the resulting Dem nominee will be able to deny the Duce his second term?
Americans so love to give presidents a second term, no matter how dreadful.
Usually.
The same fight continues this morning, with Lindsey Graham, one of Bozo's least reliable senate supporters, chiming in.
Few Republicans have responded to Mr. Trump’s comments, widely seen as racist.
On Monday, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, encouraged Mr. Trump to “aim higher,” while also calling Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and the other three lawmakers communists.
“We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists,” Mr. Graham said on Fox News.
“They hate Israel, they hate our own country.”
But he also pushed back against the president’s suggestion that the women are not American.
“They are American citizens,” he said.
“They won an election. Take on their policies. The bottom line here is this is a diverse country.
"Mr. President, you’re right about their policies. You’re right about where they will take the country. Just aim higher.”
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