America's racist President
If a manual on how to be a racist existed, "Go back to your own country!" would certainly be there at the top of the recommendations with other hateful slurs. Even Trump isn't stupid enough not to know that. He took it a step further, however, by hurling his insult at four American citizens, congresswomen, in fact: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Three of them were actually born in the United States, the exception being Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia.
The implication is that anyone whose skin is not white is not truly American. If this is not racism, what is? In one of the comments he said that they should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." But Trump is Trump: no surprises there.
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What is surprising (well, perhaps not that surprising), is the fact that a resolution condemning the President's comments on June 16, passed with only four Republicans supporting it. They were Fred Upton of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Susan Brooks of Indiana and Will Hurd of Texas. The remaining 187 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted, opposed the symbolic resolution.
One wonders what Trump has to do to induce Republican politicians to object. Incarcerate migrant children? Obstruct justice? Attack the free press? Mock the science on climate change? Sell arms to rogue states? Cause havoc with the international community and jeopardise world peace? Oh, right... he has already done all that; and more. Well, credit where credit is due: Trump has managed to do what no Democrat could have dreamed of doing so spectacularly. He has show the true colours of the Republican Party and what they stand for.
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