So on Sunday, Donald Trump
tweeted the following…
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......— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
…and within minutes everyone was
sure 1) who he was talking about and 2) it is racist.
For instance, Chris Cillizza of
CNN wrote an entire piece at CNN making both claims on both points. At the website,
it gives the following headline “Donald Trump’s racist tweets show he doesn’t
understand America,” while the preview on this tweet
says “Donald Trump’s Vision of America isn’t American.” Cillizza states that the tweets were
definitely “directed at freshman Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.)”
and then, says:
