Minority Congresswomen should ‘apologise to US’

Washington, July 21 

US President Donald Trump renewed attacks on Sunday on four Democratic Congresswomen he launched xenophobic tweets against last week, demanding they apologise “for the horrible (hateful) things they have said.”

“I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,” Trump tweeted of ethnic-minority first-term Democrats  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.

“They should apologise to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak & insecure people who can never destroy our great Nation!” the president tweeted. The comments come a week after Trump sparked a firestorm of outrage when he attacked the left-leaning lawmakers with a series of tweets, saying they should “go back” to their countries of origin. The group, three of whom were born in the United States, are of Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African-American descent.

In a rare move, Trump was rebuked by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday for “racist comments” against the women, who are known as the “Squad.”

The following day chants of “Send her back!” broke out at the President’s “Make America Great Again” rally in North Carolina, when he again attacked the women. To the delight of his thousands of supporters, Trump described Omar and the other Democrats as “left-wing ideologues (who) see our nation as a force of evil.”  Trump later said there was “great energy” at the rally but claimed he was not pleased by the taunts. — AFP