{"id":37983,"date":"2019-07-17T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37983"},"modified":"2019-07-17T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T03:00:07","slug":"racist-tweets-reveal-chilling-side-of-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37983","title":{"rendered":"Racist tweets reveal chilling side of POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23racism%20%23AOC%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37984\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To critics of this blog who have challenged my assertions &#8212; along with those of others &#8212; that Donald Trump has posted &#8220;racist&#8221; tweets regarding four members of Congress, I want to respond with a question.<\/p>\n<p>Would the president ever have dared to say such a thing had the congresswomen been of, say, western European heritage?<\/p>\n<p>You know the answer. <em>He would not have said such a thing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The four Democratic members of Congress, in case you&#8217;ve been hiding in a cave, are: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.<\/p>\n<p>They are in order, of Puerto Rican, Somali, African-American and Palestinian descent. Three of them were born in the United States; Rep. Omar was born in Somalia, but came here when she was 12 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all U.S. citizens. They all are duly elected members of the House. They all are women of color.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets &#8212; that said they should return to their countries of origin &#8212; are soaked in racism.\u00a0Do they confirm that Donald Trump is a racist? Well, you know the saying about whether the <em>shoe fits<\/em> \u2026 correct?<\/p>\n<p>The president has just made history once again by dragging his high office into the gutter of racism. Yes, Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter rants are racist to the core!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23racism%20%23AOC%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To critics of this blog who have challenged my assertions &#8212; along with those of others &#8212; that Donald Trump has posted &#8220;racist&#8221; tweets regarding four members of Congress, I want to respond with a question. Would the president ever have dared to say such a thing had the congresswomen been of, say, western European &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racist tweets reveal chilling side of POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8378,1424,3808,4932],"class_list":["post-37983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-aoc","tag-donald-trump","tag-racism","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37985,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37983\/revisions\/37985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}