The glimmer of hope in Trump’s racist social media diatribe
Trump may be good at Twitter, but so are The Squad
Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on a group of Democratic congresswomen have dominated American news this week.
It’s hard to stay positive when the leader of the free world is telling four young women of colour (three of whom were born in the US, and all of whom are citizens) to “go back where they came from”, to “their crime-infested countries”. But in the president’s days-long xenophobic tirade, there has been a glimmer of hope.
As someone who works in social media, I watch trends and movements grow online as the news unfolds. On Monday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley – aka The Squad – held a joint press conference in response to Donald Trump’s comments.
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