In a rare rebuke of President Trump, political pundit Piers Morgan categorized Trump inciting chants of “send her back” against an immigrant member of Congress as “the most sickening moment” of his presidency.
“To actually watch and hear a large gathering of thousands of predominantly white Americans chanting such a blatant infamous racist trope about a democratically elected fellow American made me shudder,” Morgan wrote in a column for the Daily Mail. “This should not be happening in modern America.”
Morgan, who frequently praises Trump for his bombastic public persona and hesitation to show political correctness, suggested Trump’s recent attacks on minority members of Congress had crossed a line.
Trump’s rhetoric, Morgan said, has become dangerous.
“Let’s be very unambiguously clear: what happened in North Carolina last night was not just racist-fueled demagoguery but bordered on fascism,” he wrote. “Had Trump just focused on Omar’s political views, many of which are highly controversial, then his ferocious rhetoric would have been rough, tough but acceptable.”
During a rally in North Carolina Wednesday night, Trump blasted four freshman lawmakers as “the radical militant hard Left” who, he said, are hell-bent on “destroying America” and implementing socialist policies.
“These are people who, in my opinion, hate this country,” Trump has said.
The women called Trump a racist after he tweeted this week that all four of them, who are U.S. citizens, should “go back” to the country they came from if they “don’t like it here.”
“If every American with ethnic origins outside of America is ‘SENT BACK!’ then there will be no America left,” Morgan wrote. “I urge President Trump to stop this dangerous nonsense immediately before the vile rhetoric is inevitably acted upon, with potentially devastating consequences.”
