Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said President Trump has recently made it clear to her and every American that he does not wish to be president of the United States.
“Donald Trump has decided he does not want to be President of the United States,” the New York Democrat tweeted Tuesday morning. “He does not want to be a President to those who disagree.”
The freshman lawmaker’s comments accelerate an explosive war of words this week between the caucus of liberal members of the Democratic Party of which she is a part and the president regarding patriotism and who should be in the country.
“These are people, who in my opinion, hate this country,” Trump said Monday of Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Donald Trump has decided he does not want to be President of the United States.
He does not want to be a President to those who disagree.
And he’d rather see most Americans leave than handle our nation’s enshrined tradition of dissent.
But we don’t leave the things we love. ??
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 16, 2019
The “squad,” as they have dubbed themselves, held a news conference Monday during which they painted Trump as racist and unfit for office, saying he is attacking them personally because he disagrees with them politically.
The president furthers the agenda of white nationalists, they said.
Over the weekend, Trump suggested the four women — three of whom were born in the United States and all who are American citizens — should “go back” to the countries they came from.
Trump later doubled down on those statements, widely condemned by the media and Democrats as racist.
“All I’m saying is if they don’t like it, they can leave,” Trump said during a news conference Monday.
In her tweet, AOC reiterated her commitment to “not take the bait” and focus on combating Trump’s policy rather than lobbing personal attacks at a president hell-bent as framing her and fellow women of color in the opposition party as un-American.
“And he’d rather see most Americans leave than handle our nation’s enshrined tradition of dissent,” she said. “But we don’t leave the things we love.”
The House is expected to vote on a resolution Trump’s verbal attacks on the women.
