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.”
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