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Frankie Taggart, Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/reuters/07/22/congresswoman.jpg"/><figcaption>In this file photo taken on July 15, 2019 US Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) speaks as, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-MN)(L), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) (2R), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hold a press conference, to address remarks made by US President Donald Trump earlier in the day, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Agence France-Presse</figcaption></figure></div>WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump renewed his attacks Sunday on four Democratic congresswomen he launched xenophobic tweets against last week, demanding they apologize &quot;for the horrible (hateful) things they have said.&quot;&quot;I don&#x27;t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,&quot; Trump tweeted of ethnic-minority first-term Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.&quot;They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak &amp; insecure people who can never destroy our great Nation!&quot; the president tweeted.The comments come a week after Trump sparked a firestorm of outrage when he attacked the left-leaning lawmakers in a series of tweets, saying they should &quot;go back&quot; to their countries of origin.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/15/19/trump-under-fire-for-racist-attack-on-us-congresswomen">Trump under fire for &#x27;racist&#x27; attack on US congresswomen</a></li></ul>The group -- all American citizens, three of whom were born in the United States -- are of Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African-American descent.In a rare move, Trump was rebuked by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday for &quot;racist comments&quot; against the women, who are known as the &quot;Squad.&quot;<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/07/17/19/us-house-votes-to-condemn-trumps-racist-comments">US House votes to condemn Trump&#x27;s &#x27;racist comments&#x27;</a></li></ul>The following day chants of &quot;Send her back!&quot; broke out at the president&#x27;s &quot;Make America Great Again&quot; rally in Greenville, North Carolina, when he again attacked the women.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/07/19/19/send-her-back-chant-at-trump-rally-catches-republicans-off-guard">&#x27;Send her back&#x27; chant at Trump rally catches Republicans off guard</a></li></ul>Trump claimed falsely that Omar had said the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda made her &quot;proud&quot; and he described the congresswomen as &quot;left-wing ideologues (who) see our nation as a force of evil.&quot;<div>SPEECH PAUSED FOR CHANTS</div>Trump later said there was &quot;great energy&quot; at the rally but claimed he was not pleased by the taunts.&quot;I was not happy when I heard that chant,&quot; he said. &quot;I didn&#x27;t like that they did it, and I started speaking quickly&quot; to move on with his speech.Television footage showed, however, that Trump let the chants continue for more than 13 seconds, only resuming speaking as they died down.Analysts say the president&#x27;s performance in Greenville demonstrated that without a Democratic presidential candidate to focus on yet, he plans to make inflammatory attacks on the Squad a centerpiece of his 2020 reelection strategy.Two days after the rally he falsely accused the congresswomen of using the phrase &quot;evil Jews,&quot; and Ocasio-Cortez in particular of calling Americans &quot;garbage.&quot;Several of the Democratic presidential hopefuls who plan to run against him and a few Republicans have urged Trump to tone down the rhetoric.Ron Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin and the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said Sunday he didn&#x27;t agree that the congresswomen were incapable of loving their country.&quot;I find it unfortunate so many parts of our public debate are getting stuck inside a racial framework when what I would like to see is us moving toward that color-blind society,&quot; he told CNN&#x27;s &quot;State of the Union.&quot;<div>&#x27;DIVIDE OUR COUNTRY&#x27;</div>But the president has made it clear -- despite the risk of inflaming racial tensions and widening the partisan divide -- that he believes he has latched onto a winning strategy.<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/07/15/20190713-trump.jpg"/><figcaption>US President Donald Trump arrives from a fund-raising event before departing for Washington DC, at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, US, July 12, 2019. Carlos Barria, Reuters</figcaption></figure></div>Trump tapped into grievances among white blue-collar and rural Americans to eke out a narrow victory in 2016, winning 57 percent of white voters while his rival Hillary Clinton won 37 percent.Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings, the African-American chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told ABC&#x27;s &quot;This Week&quot; that the &quot;send her back&quot; chants reminded him of painful experiences fighting segregation in the 1960s.&quot;It&#x27;s extremely divisive and I don&#x27;t think this is becoming of the president of the United States of America, the leader of the entire world. We can do better than that.&quot;He added that the congresswomen targeted by Trump &quot;love their country&quot; and work hard to move closer to the &quot;perfect union that our founding fathers talked about.&quot;He said he had &quot;no doubt&quot; Trump was a racist, a charge rejected by White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller.&quot;I fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize somebody, and they happen to be a different color skin, that that makes it racial criticism,&quot; Miller told &quot;Fox News Sunday.&quot;Senator Corey Booker, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, meanwhile told CBS&#x27;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; that he was accusing Trump of being &quot;worse than&quot; a racist.&quot;He is somebody that is using race like a weapon to divide our country against itself,&quot; Booker said.<div>ft/bbk/wd/mdl</div><div>© Agence France-Presse</div>

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump renewed his attacks Sunday on four Democratic congresswomen he launched xenophobic tweets against last week, demanding they apologize "for the horrible (hateful) things they have said."

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump renewed his attacks Sunday on four Democratic congresswomen he launched xenophobic tweets against last week, demanding they apologize "for the horrible (hateful) things they have said."

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Trump says minority congresswomen should 'apologize to America'

Frankie Taggart,

Agence France-Presse

Published Jul 22, 2019 06:40 AM PHT

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