Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner criticized President Trump’s tweets suggesting that certain progressive freshmen congresswomen should go back to their home countries.
In a three-tweet thread Sunday morning, Trump suggested that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York , Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts should go back to their countries of origin to help them if they are unhappy with the United States.
“To the president, I would say, ‘This is an old trope that has been used against people of color: go back to where you come from,” Faulkner stated during Outnumbered on Monday.
“Those women have picked on a man who likes to fight. That man has leaned on some less-than-presidential rhetoric and all of it is toxic, none of it furthers the conversation, and what is the conversation we are trying to have right now?” she asked. “That some people are more American than other people? Is that what we’re arguing about right now?”
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery also suggested that the president “shouldn’t have inserted himself in this way” and that “this is when his instincts don’t best serve him.”
Faulkner and Katie Pavlich then got into a tense moment after Pavlich pointed out that the president did say in his tweets that they could come back once they fixed the problems in their home country. Faulkner then pointed out that of the four congresswomen, only Omar was born outside of the country.
