At least let’s consider Omar when talking about Trump’s ‘racist’ tweets

Published July 17, 2019 8:34pm ET



Unlike the rest of the news media, I’m not going to assume there’s any coherent or consistent meaning lying inside President Trump’s tweets about the unnamed “congresswomen” from this weekend.

But while we’re leaping, as usual, to labeling the tweets “racist,” let’s at least acknowledge that Trump was right insofar as his tweet pertained to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

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