July 16, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 119 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                      TRUMP'S TWEETS MERIT CENSURE

  (Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call out the 
blatant racism in the President's tweets.
  I believe his rant and his defense of that rant merit censure from 
this body.
  The phrase ``Go back where you came from'' is a racist trope that has 
been used by segregationists, neo-Nazis, White nationalists, and the Ku 
Klux Klansmen to create a framework in which non-White people are not 
truly American.
  Describing non-White countries as ``broken'' and ``crime infested'' 
echoes the racist trope the President has used before that such 
countries are dysfunctional, dirty, and violent because their 
populations are Black.
  His comments are indefensible, and so is the silence from my 
colleagues across the aisle.
  Mr. Speaker, I wouldn't bother seeking an apology from him, but I do 
hope Republicans here will join us in fully and roundly condemning his 
words, and I would remind them that history won't look kindly on those 
who refuse to stand up for what is right.
  It is not lost on me, however, and I hope not my colleagues either, 
that this is simply a distraction from the President's friendship with 
a documented pedophile and news reports that he lied to the Supreme 
Court about his census question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.

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