It’s obvious that Trump and his true allies, like Stephen Miller, aren’t trying to discourage gleeful chants like 'send her back'
Out in the open. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It was already abundantly clear that President Trump appreciated the racist “Send her back!” chant his supporters directed at Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a political rally in North Carolina last Wednesday.
The day after that, Trump decided he was done pretending to distance himself from the racist spectacle he had incited. In a callback to his infamous post-Charlottesville praise of white supremacist protesters, he defended the supporters who came to his rally in North Carolina. “Those are incredible people, they are incredible patriots,” Trump told reporters on Friday.
Trump’s conflation of America’s national identity with race is more revealing, if not-all-that surprising. Per Trump’s logic, for these four non-white women’s criticism of America or alleged criticism of “Americans” to be somehow racist by default, America would have to be a white ethnostate. That’s the America white nationalists seek, and the one Trump is proposing in his rhetoric.
In retweeting Hopkins, Trump tried to both underline and erase the controversy. He simultaneously re-promoted the chant and amplified a like-minded endorsement of it. Also, in his appended comment, he claimed the video or tweet somehow proved he shouldn’t be held responsible for the chant. The chanters, Trump suggested, just “love the USA!”
But the Post also reports that a few days before the “go back” attack, Trump had been lamenting how his tweets didn’t command news cycles like they used to.
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