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Trump: Dem Rep ‘Squad’ Must Apologize to Me, America, and Israel, Too

Donald Trump on Monday upped the ante on his tweets telling four U.S. congresswomen of color to “go back” to where they came from, by demanding on Twitter that the lawmakers apologize to him, as well as America and Israel, for their “foul language” and the “terrible things they have said.” As critics around the world condemned the president for his previous shocking comments, he went further, referring to the four women as the real racists: “So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions! If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.”

In tweets posted late Sunday, Trump hit out at people who called his initial tweets racist. “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion,” he wrote. “Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, ‘RACIST.’ Their disgusting language and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged.” Pelosi said Trump’s original tweet was evidence that “his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again.”

View the July 15 article by Jamie Ross on the Daily Beast website here.

Trump Fans the Flames of a Racial Fire

New York Times logoWASHINGTON — President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last. He has a pretty large carton of matches and a ready supply of kerosene.

His Twitter harangue goading Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the country they came from, even though most of them were actually born in the United States, shocked many. But it should have surprised few who have watched the way he has governed a multicultural, multiracial country the last two and a half years.

When it comes to race, Mr. Trump plays with fire like no other president in a century. While others who occupied the White House at times skirted close to or even over the line, finding ways to appeal to the resentments of white Americans with subtle and not-so-subtle appeals, none of them in modern times fanned the flames as overtly, relentlessly and even eagerly as Mr. Trump.

View the complete July 14 article by Peter Baker on The New York Times website here.

‘Breathtakingly racist’: Internet scorches Trump over his tweets attacking Democratic lawmakers

AlterNet logoCommenters on Twitter were quick to condemn President Donald Trump on Sunday morning after he encouraged unnamed foreign-born “Progressive” Democratic lawmakers to go back to their “corrupt” places of birth and fix the problems there instead of criticizinbg the job he is doing.

Trump’s comments come the day after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI)[sic] — who was born in Somalia — criticized the president’s immigration policies.

As one commenter offered, Trump’s tweets were “pure racism.”

You can see some of the responses below:

View the complete July 14 article by Tom Boggioni from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

The unmistakable ugliness of Trump urging brown-skinned congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries

Washington Post logoHis tweet suggested his American-born critics are foreigners. And it wasn’t subtle.

The president of the United States on Sunday urged some women in Congress to go back to the countries from which they came. The problem — beyond the nasty historical overtones of such a sentiment, of course — is that three of the four women about whom he appeared to be talking were born in the United States.

Trump’s tweets on these kinds of things are often somewhat carefully crafted — enough to give him some plausible deniability. But it’s pretty clear this one was directed at three American-born congresswomen, as well as one refugee-turned-lawmaker, otherizing them and urging them to return to countries in which they weren’t born.

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Trump says he sees no rise in white nationalism after New Zealand attack

President Trump on Friday said he doesn’t see a rise in white nationalism, despite a deadly gun attack at two mosques in New Zealand that killed at least 49 people.

“I don’t really, I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if he sees a rise in white nationalism. “If you look what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that’s the case. I don’t know enough about it yet.”

He called the shooting a “horrible, horrible thing.”

View the complete March 15 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

Trump refuses to acknowledge the fraught history of nationalism

Pres. Trump speaks with French Pres. Emmanuel Macron on Nov. 10, prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Credit: Saul Loeb, AFP, Getty Images

The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights

President Trump took a peevish tone Tuesday as he revisited complaints about French President Emmanuel Macron, who used a weekend commemoration of the end of World War I to warn the president during his visit to Paris of the perils of the nationalist label he embraces and to suggest he has a lot to learn about history.

Macron called nationalism a dangerous trap and the opposite of patriotism while invoking the bloodiest episodes of 20th-century European history.

But Trump has shown little patience for the lesson Macron tried to impart or the two days of praise the young French leader has received since his not-so-veiled criticism of his U.S. counterpart.

View the complete November 13 article by Anne Gearan on The Washington Post website here.