US President Donald Trump renewed attacks 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
Greenville, 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.
"I was not happy when I heard that chant," he
said. "I didn't like that they did it, and I started speaking
quickly" to move on with his speech.
Television footage showed, however, that Trump let the
chant continue for more than 13 seconds, only resuming speaking as they died
down.
The president demonstrated in Greenville that without a
Democratic presidential candidate to focus on yet, he plans to make inflammatory
attacks on the Squad a centerpiece of his 2020 re-election strategy.
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