UK Prime Minister Blasts US President
President Donald Trump is doubling down on his weekend tweets, accusing four progressive Democratic U.S. Congresswomen he targeted of “racist hatred” and demanding an apology. But it was Trump who ignited the international firestorm when he suggested they were not born in America, telling them to “go back” to the “places from which they came.”
Three of the four lawmakers were born in the U.S. and all are U.S. citizens.
Trump early Monday morning issued a new series of racist attacks on Twitter, calling the unnamed lawmakers “the Radical Left Congresswomen,” and demanding they “apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said.”
Trump’s initial tweets did not mention Israel, so in addition to doubling down on the nativism and racism, he’s now throwing additional hot-button issues into the mix.
He went on to accuse them of using “foul language & racist hatred” while trying to use his attacks to either split the Democratic party or brand all Democrats in the same manner.
Meanwhile, the President is taking on fire from across the Pond.
British Prime Minister Theresa May issued a statement Monday saying “the language used to refer to these women was completely unacceptable.”
Here are Trump’s tweets from Monday morning: