Trump news: AOC, Ilhan Omar, Pressley and Tlaib slam 'hateful actions' of 'racist, xenophobic' president
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump began the week embroiled in a racism row after attempting to exploit divisions among the opposition by telling young progressive congresswomen like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”, demanding an apology from the victims in his latest round of tweets.
Despite boasting of a 94 per cent approval rating among Republicans, the president found himself lagging behind Democratic 2020 challengers Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in a new poll conducted for NBC News/Wall Street Journal.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began mass deportations raids on at least 10 American cities, Mr Trump also hit out at media coverage of vice president Mike Pence's visit to a border detention centre in McAllen, Texas, on Friday, insisting the facility in question was “well run and clean” despite evidence to the contrary.
During a press conference, Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Omar, and their colleagues Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib all denounced the president's attacks on them, which he doubled down on Monday afternoon at the White House.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez, finishing up her remarks, called the president "weak", and said he focuses on personal attacks because he cannot debate issues.
"Weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy," Ms Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Here's my story on Donald Trump's latest hard-line immigration policy surrounding the US-Mexico border -
Donald Trump's acting director of UCIS refused to acknowledge the president's racist tweets in a morning interview with CNN -
Here’s Donald Trump’s schedule for the rest of the day:
The president will host the third annual Made in America product showcase on the South Lawn of the White House at 11:45am EDT, followed by lunch with Mike Pence at 12:30pm.
He will receive his intelligence briefing at 1:45pm in the Oval Office. There are no other planned public events for the day.
Donald Trump has now attacked the latest rounds of polling, most of which shows Democratic 2020 hopefuls beating him in head-to-head polls:
Republicans are somehow claiming Donald Trump's tweets attacking four Democratic congresswoman are not actually racist -
Theresa May has condemned Donald Trump’s racist attack on female Democrat congresswomen, calling the US president’s remarks ”completely unacceptable”.
Mr Trump prompted fury after suggesting that the unnamed politicians should “go back” to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came”.
He did not specify who he was referring to, but the attack was widely interpreted as being aimed at congresswomen of colour including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who have all been critical of Mr Trump’s immigration policies in recent days.
Asked about Ms May’s views on the comments, her official spokesman said: “The prime minister’s view is that the language used to refer to these women was completely unacceptable.”
Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite his predecessor Barack Obama, the UK’s former ambassador reportedly said in a new leaked diplomatic memo.
Sir Kim Darroch claimed the US president’s actions amounted to “diplomatic vandalism” and were fuelled by “personality” reasons, according to a document seen by The Mail on Sunday.
The ambassador’s comments are said to have been made in May 2018 after then-foreign secretary Boris Johnson made a failed trip to the White House in a bid to change Mr Trump’s mind on leaving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The revelation came as police identified a suspect behind the leak, according to The Sunday Times.
Donald Trump is telling reporters his tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen were not racist -
Nancy Pelosi has just released a resolution condemning Donald Trump's racist tweets -
Trump is speaking at the White House right now. He's again targeting the four congresswomen, all women of colour, who he's been on a racist tirade against for days. He seems more stirred up than usual, and at one point appeared to stop a reporter from asking a question, holding up a finger and saying "Quiet!.....Quiet.......quiet......quiet!" It's unclear what question he was silencing.
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