Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to Trump, “You are angry because you can’t conceive of an America that includes us …. You rely on a frightened America for your plunder”
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP/Shutterstock On Sunday morning, Americans awoke to racist remarks President Trump made on Twitter, which singled out progressive women of color in Congress and attacked them with xenophobic clichés.
Though he did not mention them by name, Trump was undoubtedly alluding to Democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. In the hours after Trump hit “publish tweet” on his racist tirade, the congresswomen, each a social media force in her own right, mounted strong condemnations of Trump’s remarks, flipping his rhetoric around by pointing out that he himself is a national catastrophe.
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