NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Tracey Ramsey today called out Donald Trump’s racist remarks towards US democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib:
https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1150526061442211840
https://twitter.com/traceyram/status/1150429466772029442
Context:
‘Why Don’t They Go Back’: President Trump Tweets at Congresswomen of Color
If I’m not mistaken Jagmeet Singh is the only party leader in Canada that has been directly calling out Donald Trump’s bigotry, not just today but over and over again since he was elected as leader.
I appreciate that Jagmeet Singh called it racism. So many public figures denouncing this have tiptoed around the word. Trump is a racist. His tweets were racist.
Trump and anyone who sides with him or votes for him is racist. It’s not a secret.
It’s just never been this blatant before.
I disagree. It’s always been this blatant if you were paying attention.
The US was built on a foundation of racism and oppression and it had never deviated from that.
He’s doing two things - he’s testing how far he’s pushed what’s acceptable/what he can get away with openly saying, whilst at the same time providing yet another outrage story to fill the press while he conducts his biggest ICE raid in US cities yet, don’t look away.