Trump Tells AOC & Other Progressive Congressmen to Go Back to Where They Came From

[3rdWorld]

Trump says that his tweets being called racist 'doesn't concern' him because 'many people agree' with him

Trump says that his tweets being called racist 'doesn't concern' him because 'many people agree' with him

John Haltiwanger
,
Business Insider•July 16, 2019



President Trump Defends Racist Tweet About Congresswomen

Leah Millis/Reuters

• President Donald Trump on Monday said he wasn't concerned that his tweets attacking Democratic lawmakers had been condemned as racist.
  
• "It doesn't concern me, because many people agree with me," Trump said.
• In tweets the day before, Trump said that several "Progressive" Democratic congresswomen should leave the US and "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."
• Trump's tweets appeared to be aimed at four women of color: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
• The president's tweets played off the "go back to Africa" racist trope.
• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

President Donald Trump on Monday was being decried as racist by Democrats, world leaders, and a small group of Republicans over his Sunday tweets, but he didn't seem particularly concerned.

Asked by a reporter whether he was concerned that "white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you," the president said, "It doesn't concern me, because many people agree with me.

"And all I'm saying: They want to leave, they can leave. Now, it doesn't say leave forever — it says leave if you want," Trump said of his tweets before bragging about the growing economy.

pic.twitter.com/C0ranRv6vg

"As far as I'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave," he said.

He added: "If you're not happy in the US, if you're complaining all the time, very simply: You can leave. You can leave right now."

He later said that "these are people that, in my opinion, hate our country" and that if they did leave the US, there would be "many people that won't miss them."

Donald Trump
Trump's tweets on Sunday were aimed at "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" who "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)."

Read more: Republican silence on Trump's racist tweets shows how fearful they've become of defying him and losing voters

"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," Trump said.

The tweets appeared to be directed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The lawmakers are US citizens, three of whom were born in the US.

Trump has been widely decried as racist for his tweets that played off the "go back to Africa" racist trope. But most Republicans, including the party's leaders in Congress, have remained silent on the matter.

The president earlier on Monday suggested the lawmakers he attacked were actually the racists.

"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," Trump tweeted. "I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S."

The four lawmakers have heavily criticized the president on an array of issues, especially his immigration policies. Ocasio-Cortez sparked a fierce debate in recent weeks after comparing the facilities the administration uses to detained migrants to "concentration camps."

Omar has also been an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and the US government's support for it, making comments that led to accusations of anti-Semitism and prompted her to apologize.

And Tlaib earlier this year drew Trump's ire when she vowed to "impeach the motherf---er."

But none of these lawmakers has expressed explicitly racist sentiments, and all have promoted the importance of diversity and inclusiveness as inherently American concepts and ideals.

 

[null]

Trump is playing rough in these streets.

 

[Lord-Yosh]

He's going full white supremacist

 

[John Reena]

I still see all those ppl on Twitter on Election Day 2016 taking pics of their written ballots having “2Pac” “Hurumbai” and “Captain America” on em.’ It was all fun n games. NOW FF to 2019, they want Nancy Pelosi to magically re-write the constitution n impeach Trump. Nahhh it wa

 

[John Reena]

Nancy Pelosi had it all wrapped up and could have just shushed aoc and co down the drain calling them young and dumb forever
but nope Trump saves the day for the dems again with his racist ass forcing all democrats to defend the squad that they clearly all don't like

This keeps up and you are going to see more and more dem infighting turning into some sort of trump fight

AOC and the Justice Dems determined to put Trump back in for 2020. They constantly going at fellow Dems, when they should be going at Trump n governing.

 

[John Reena]

That's the most openly racist shyt a president has said at least since the Civil Rights Movement.


They HAVE to impeach him at this point.

The Democrats just need to say "He is openly fukking racist and cannot serve the non-White people of this country" and vote for impeachment.

They have the votes to make it past the House. Who cares if the Senate won't convict? Put that shyt on his record. Put EVERY White lawmaker in this country on the record. Is it okay for the President of the United States to be openly racist or not? Make them answer that question

Impeach him.

REAL impeachment >>>>>> Moral Victory Impeachment

 

[lorenzo]

his wife is literally deportable lol

 

[Take It In Blood]

I don't like or rock with Trump at all

But I appreciate the fukkery he brings

 

[null]

The question for today in the media is: "Is Trump racist?".

You couldn't make it up.

Humanity is disappointing. I cannot believe that people cannot dismantle these talking points.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

The question for today in the media is: "Is Trump racist?".

I mean. I could understand if they said, "publicly and blatantly racist". That could be debatable.

 

[null]

I mean. I could understand if they said, "publicly and blatantly racist". That could be debatable.

It is a meaningless debate. You cannot prove racist intent you can only narrow down the odds. Even if someone said "I am racist" that is not "proof" that they are. They could be mad. They might not understand racism as you understand it etc.

The law doesn't try to prove what you are first and then look at your deeds afterwards. In law the focus is on what you do, not what you feel, because it is actions that cause the problems.
Asking that question is a philosophical, moralistic curio that at the end of the day could only be argued via his actions and in and of itself doesn't make much difference.

In law we split "causing death" into several categories because the deed of causing that death is the question to be answered. We acknowledge that it is possible to cause death unintentionally but lack of intention does not mean not culpable. You might not intend to cause death and that is why we also have negligence and manslaughter penal codes.

These facts + the concepts of societal norms, normativeness, branding and messaging present an open and shut case that means he is guilty of causing damage.

What is happening now is tantamount to the police finding someone dead in my car, determining that I didn't murder that person (or they cannot prove it) and then simply forgetting about the dead body.

Who cares whether slave masters were racist. What mattered is that they kept slaves. We outlawed the slavery and didn't outlaw racism because racism without action is nothing.

When referring to racism as you did what is actually meant is "racial discrimination" and people are conflating the fact that racial discrimination is tangible with Trump's inner feelings.

If a madman actually wasn't racist but kept attacking black politicians ONLY because of reasons unbeknown to him, he would be prosecuted on the basis of his actions and the charge would be some sort of racially aggravated assault.

 

[null]

It's like questioners set the questions and they set the frame for the possible answers and then the questioned find themselves unable to think outside of the box of possible answers that have been set for them.

I honesty am increasingly thinking that intelligence is more of a reflex or a memory trick then intelligence for the majority of people. Just like a cat just knows how to eat (#catset) people just know or remember how to do certain things but they are unable to actually reason independently about those things. They are unable to think outside of the box.

That is why when you are taking over a country you capture, silence or kill the relatively few intellectuals and thinkers and the rest of the people will fall into line.

 

[Jalether]

Omar was not born in the US. She's a Somali refugee that openly has disdain for this country. If Star Tribune had published the story that she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother before her election, she'd be in Minnesota somewhere.

I'm willing to bet my mortgage on this POS being a cac, either that or a c00n republican who watches nothing but fox news, infowars and reads nothing but breitbart,dailycaller etc.

Straight right out of the far right talking point

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Omar was not born in the US. She's a Somali refugee that openly has disdain for this country. If Star Tribune had published the story that she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother before her election, she'd be in Minnesota somewhere.

so you can be a racist on her now and nothing happens to you

 

[dangerranger]

It is a meaningless debate. You cannot prove racist intent you can only narrow down the odds. Even if someone said "I am racist" that is not "proof" that they are. They could be mad. They might not understand racism as you understand it etc.

The law doesn't try to prove what you are first and then look at your deeds afterwards. In law the focus is on what you do, not what you feel, because it is actions that cause the problems.
Asking that question is a philosophical, moralistic curio that at the end of the day could only be argued via his actions and in and of itself doesn't make much difference.

In law we split "causing death" into several categories because the deed of causing that death is the question to be answered. We acknowledge that it is possible to cause death unintentionally but lack of intention does not mean not culpable. You might not intend to cause death and that is why we also have negligence and manslaughter penal codes.

These facts + the concepts of societal norms, normativeness, branding and messaging present an open and shut case that means he is guilty of causing damage.

What is happening now is tantamount to the police finding someone dead in my car, determining that I didn't murder that person (or they cannot prove it) and then simply forgetting about the dead body.

Who cares whether slave masters were racist. What mattered is that they kept slaves. We outlawed the slavery and didn't outlaw racism because racism without action is nothing.

When referring to racism as you did what is actually meant is "racial discrimination" and people are conflating the fact that racial discrimination is tangible with Trump's inner feelings.

If a madman actually wasn't racist but kept attacking black politicians ONLY because of reasons unbeknown to him, he would be prosecuted on the basis of his actions and the charge would be some sort of racially aggravated assault.

This is probably one of the best explanations I’ve seen when talking about this issue and why people tend to be ineffective of debating this issue in the public and even why so often the law tends to not serve in favor of us.