Tag: Trump racism

Pelosi announces House resolution to condemn Trump’s ‘xenophobic tweets’

The Hill logoSpeaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday urged House Democrats to support a resolution to condemn President Trump for tweeting that four Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to their countries, even though all are U.S. citizens.

“The House cannot allow the President’s characterization of immigrants to our country to stand. Our Republican colleagues must join us in condemning the President’s xenophobic tweets,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to House Democrats announcing a “forthcoming” resolution from Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who was born in Poland, Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), and other Democratic members who were born abroad.

“This weekend, the President went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about Members of Congress,” Pelosi added. “Rather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values.”

View the complete July 15 article by Cristina Marcos on The Hill website here.

Republicans are quiet as Trump urges minority congresswomen to leave the country

Washington Post logoA day has passed without prominent Republicans stepping forward to disagree with President Trump’s notion that four minority congresswomen who have been critical of his approach to immigration enforcement should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Insinuating that people of color are foreigners, the president used a trope broadly viewed as racist when he tweeted on Sunday morning that the Democratic women, only one of whom was born outside the United States and all of whom are American citizens, “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.”

The silence of Republican leaders appeared to suggest either that they agreed with the views expressed by their standard-bearer or that he has so effectively consolidated his control over their party that they have grown disinclined to voice dissent.

View the complete July 15 article by Isaac Stanley-Becker on The Washington Post website here.

DFL Repeats Call for Minnesota GOP to Denounce Trump’s Blatant Racism

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA – Yesterday, Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Chairman Ken Martin called on top Minnesota Republicans to denounce President Trump’s multiple, racist attacks on Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. Thus far, they have refused to do so.

Today, in response to Republican silence, Martin released the following statement:

“Courage should not be a partisan issue. Standing up to racism should not be a partisan issue. It’s past time for Minnesota Republicans to put politics aside and do what is right for our country by denouncing Trump’s racist attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar. Continue reading “DFL Repeats Call for Minnesota GOP to Denounce Trump’s Blatant Racism”

Trump to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants at US-Mexico border

The Hill logoThe Trump administration is moving to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced Monday.

According to text of the rule set to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday, asylum seekers who pass through another country before reaching the United States will be ineligible for asylum when they reach the southern border.

The move marks an acceleration in the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the number of migrants crossing the U.S. border with Mexico and has the potential to considerably reduce the number of asylum claims.

View the complete July 15 article by Morgan Chalfant, Jacqueline Thomsen, Chris Mills Rodrigo and Rafael Bernal on The Hill website here.

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.

Here’s what Trump said: Continue reading “The unmistakable ugliness of Trump urging brown-skinned congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries”

Trump tells progressive congresswomen to ‘go back’ where they came from

The Hill logoPresident Trump on Sunday lashed out at a group of progressive Democrats, saying the female lawmakers should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” before criticizing policies in the U.S.

“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump said in an early morning string of tweets.

View the complete July 14 article by Justin Wise on The Hill website here.

Donald Trump Doubles Down on Racist Slander

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA – Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Chairman Ken Martin released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump latest racist attack on Representative Omar:

“This is a dark day for America and a stain on the office of the President of the United States. It’s frightening to witness President Donald Trump repeating racist falsehoods from the darkest corners of the internet designed to inspire hatred and sow divisions in our country.

“Donald Trump accusing Representative Ilhan Omar of supporting Al Qaeda is completely disgusting, astonishingly racist and obviously false. Omar is a proud American Congresswoman who has devoted her life to public service and has sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Continue reading “Donald Trump Doubles Down on Racist Slander”