Fox News prime-time host Laura Ingraham called President Trump’s tweets directing progressive members of Congress to go back to their home countries an “unforced error” during her show Monday night.
In a three-tweet thread on Sunday, the president 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 native countries if they are unhappy with the United States. Of the four, only Omar was born outside the United States.
“Yes, the president made an unforced error, I would say that, and that tweet telling the women to go back to places from which they came — three of the four were born in America,” Ingraham stated. “But the idea that he’s hitting them because they’re people or women of color is just absurd. I mean who doesn’t Trump hit? He was hitting Paul Ryan last week. He’s hitting them because their views in his mind and I think in the mind of millions of Americans are insanely radical.”
Ingraham went on to show a clip of Pressley speaking at the Netroots Nation convention in Philadelphia from over the weekend.
“We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice,” she said. “We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice,” Pressley said. “We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don’t even show up because we need you to represent that voice.”
Ingraham then commented, “That should’ve gotten the attention this weekend.”
