President Trump attacked prominent liberal members of the Democratic Party on Monday afternoon.
The comments come as an extension from previous remarks he made over the weekend. In a three-tweet thread Sunday morning, the president suggested that the liberal congress members should go back to their country of origin to help those communities if they are unhappy with the status of America.
The president’s tweets did not mention names or specific examples, but he did while addressing reporters at the “Made in America” event. He began by saying that, “if you’re not happy, you can leave.”
“I mean I look at the one, I look at Omar, I don’t know her, I never met her. I hear the way she talks about al Qaeda. Al Qaeda has killed many Americans. She said you could hold your chest out,” Trump said. “When I think of America, huh. When I think of al Qaeda, I can hold my chest out. When she talked about the World Trade Center being knocked down, some people, you remember the famous some people. These are people that in my opinion hate our country.”
This is the video of Ilhan Omar that Trump kept referencing while speaking to the press todaypic.twitter.com/tFv2rP7UOy
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 15, 2019
“In one case you have somebody that comes from Somalia, which is a failed government, a failed state, who left Somalia, who ultimately came here and now is a congresswoman who’s never happy, says horrible things about Israel. Hates Israel. Hates Jews. Hates Jews. It’s very simple,” the president continued.
“If the Democrats want to wrap their bows around this group of four people, one of them kept Amazon out of New York,” he added. “Tens of thousands of Jobs, would have been a great thing. She kept Amazon from going — it would have been a good deal. Could he have made better? Maybe. But tens of thousands of Jobs. And New York has not been the same since that happened. It’s really hurt New York, and New York City.”
Since those tweets were sent out, the president has faced swift rebuke from the Democratic Party. But, the condemnations from the Republican Party have been few in numbers.
