Donald Trump Continues To Show He’s Racist

From Huff Post:

The president’s tweet targeting congresswomen of color is just the latest in a long list of examples.

By Lydia O’Connor and Daniel Marans

All four are American, and only Omar was born outside the U.S.

Trump then doubled down on his remarks the next day, telling reporters at an event at the White House that he believes the congresswomen “hate our country.”

Throughout Trump’s campaign and beyond, HuffPost has kept a running list of examples of Trump’s racism, dating back to the 1970s. He’s added much fodder to the list since he’s been in the White House. Here are just a few examples:

He said immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries” 

In a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office in January 2018, Trump argued against restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti and African nations, describing them as “shithole countries,” sources told The Washington Post and NBC News.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” the president reportedly asked. “We should have more people from places like Norway.”

The following day, Trump claimed on Twitter that he hadn’t used those specific words, but Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) ― who was in the room at the time ― swiftly contradicted him, saying that the president had in fact “said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly.”

Officials told NBC News that in fall 2017, a Korean-American intelligence analyst was briefing Trump on a situation in Pakistan when the president asked her: “Where are you from?”

When she told him she was from New York, Trump was reportedly “unsatisfied and asked again.”

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ASSOCIATED PRESSTrump, at an event outside of the White House on July 15, said he has no regrets about telling progressive Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to the countries they came from. Of the four he had in mind, only one was born outside the U.S. and she came to the country as a child.