"Send it back!": Donald Trump encouraged racist songs against a Muslim MP

Donald Trump continued his attacks against the four Democratic deputies who, according to him, "hate the United States". This happened hours after a motion for taxation presented by the opposition failed Congress. The campaign event in Greenville, North Carolina was highlighted by public chants against Muslim Congressman Ilhan Omar, to which participants urged "send him back" to Somalia, the country from where she came as a refugee when she was a child.

In front of a tide of red caps bearing the caption "Make America Great Again", the president named Latina Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, African-American Ayanna Pressley and Muslims Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, to whom Last Sunday, he urged "to return" to their country of origin"crime – infested places" in statements that sparked controversy inside and outside the United States.

"They do not like our country, they are so angry, they do not like it, let them go, let them go", said the president during the election.

All are US citizens and three of them were born in the country: Ocasio-Cortez in New York, Tlaib in Detroit (Michigan) and Pressley in Chicago. Omar, meanwhile, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, but was granted US citizenship when she was a teenager, having arrived as a refugee in the country with her family.

The congressman reacted from her Twitter account, in which she quoted a poem from the Mexican writer Maya Angelou.

"You can shoot me with your words / You can cut me with your eyes / You can kill me with your hate / But still, like the air, I'll get up", he wrote this morning Answer.

Very aggressive towards the four women, whom he now calls "young evil social legislators," Trump was particularly ironic with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York member of a Puerto Rican mother.

"I do not have time to name three nameslet's call it Cortez, "the president said.

Trump, 73, will propose a second term in November 2020 and appears to be betting on fuel racial and ideological tensions for mobilize the white electorate who took him to the White House.

Back in Washington, the president congratulated the public on the electoral law. "What a crowd and what great people … The enthusiasm will end our radical left rivals," Trump said.

The House of Representatives, with a democratic majority, approved Tuesday night a condemnation of Trump's comments for taking them into account "racists"However, he He refused Wednesday to support attempts to open the impeachment process of the president, illustrating the divisions within the opposition party.

Trump celebrated on Twitter the failure of the initiative, which he described as "ridiculous". "It should never happen to any president of the United States," he said.