Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen

Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen
# 15 July 2019 02:09 (UTC +04:00)

US President Donald Trump has been accused of racism after posting tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen, APA reports citing BBC.

He claimed the women "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe", before suggesting they "go back".

He then said Speaker Nancy Pelosi "would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements".

It comes a week after Ms Pelosi clashed with "the squad", a group of four left-wing Democratic women of colour.

Of the four congresswomen, three - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley - were born and raised in the US, while the fourth, Ilhan Omar, moved to the US as a child.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx in New York, approximately 12 miles away from the Queens hospital where Mr Trump himself was born.

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