{"id":125559,"date":"2019-07-21T15:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125559"},"modified":"2019-07-21T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:01:04","slug":"trump-ill-advisedly-renews-his-tweetstorm-on-the-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125559","title":{"rendered":"Trump Ill-advisedly Renews His Tweetstorm on &#8220;the Squad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Resumes Twitter Attack on Four Democratic Congresswomen<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainArticleDiv\">\n<p>President Donald Trump resumed his criticism of the four progressive Democratic Congresswomen known as \u201cThe Squad,\u201d saying he didn\u2019t believe they were \u201ccapable of loving our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country. They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak &amp; insecure people who can never destroy our great Nation!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1152912995938443269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s Twitter message came a week after the president said that the women, all minorities, should \u201cgo back\u201d to the \u201ccorrupt and inept\u201d countries they came from &#8212; a message condemned by Democrats and some Republicans as racist.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The latest tweet came minutes after a segment on one of the lawmakers, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, on Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the women of the Squad &#8212; Ocasio-Cortez, Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts &#8212; were born in the U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was born in Somalia and immigrated as a child.<\/p>\n<p>Trump this week briefly attempted to distance himself after people attending his campaign rally in North Carolina started a \u201csend her back\u201d chant in response to his criticism of Omar. Since then, though, he\u2019s reversed that disavowal, saying the people at the rally were \u201cincredible patriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Trump called the women of the Squad, \u201cweak &amp; insecure people\u201d who are \u201cdestroying the Democrat Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also attacked the Washington Post Sunday for its reporting on his attacks against a group of minority congresswomen, calling it an example of &#8220;presidential harassment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Washington Post Story, about my speech in North Carolina and tweet, with its phony sources who do not exist, is Fake News,&#8221; Trump tweeted, referring to a rally in North Carolina his campaign held last week. &#8220;The only thing people were talking about is the record setting crowd and the tremendous enthusiasm, far greater than the Democrats. You\u2019ll see in 2020!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Presidential harassment,&#8221; Trump added in a separate tweet, before tweeting &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; in a subsequent one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Washington Post Story, about my speech in North Carolina and tweet, with its phony sources who do not exist, is Fake News. The only thing people were talking about is the record setting crowd and the tremendous enthusiasm, far greater than the Democrats. You\u2019ll see in 2020!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1152910721199595520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said Sunday that Trump is \u201cworst than a racist\u201d and compared the president to George Wallace, a former governor of Alabama known as an opponent of the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1152910721199595520\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s actually using racist tropes and language for political gain, to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself,\u201d Booker said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union. \u201cThis is somebody who is very similar to George Wallace, to racists who use the exact same language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House adviser Stephen Miller, who has drafted some of the president\u2019s most hawkish immigration policies, defended Trump on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller said there was a difference between Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s use of the word \u201cgarbage\u201d to illustrate the need for more ambitious policy initiatives, policies, and Trump\u2019s use of the term in a 2014 tweet, when he said of former President Barack Obama, \u201cEverything he touches turns to garbage!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump this week falsely claimed that Ocasio-Cortez had termed U.S. people \u201cgarbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said on CNN that he\u2019d like to see \u201ceverybody tone down their rhetoric.\u201d Asked about Trump\u2019s latest tweet, Johnson said \u201cthat\u2019s his opinion and I don\u2019t agree with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 2019 Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/trump-resumes-twitter-attack\/2019\/07\/21\/id\/925330\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/trump-resumes-twitter-attack\/2019\/07\/21\/id\/925330\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Resumes Twitter Attack on Four Democratic Congresswomen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}