For the first time, we have a president who communicates directly with the public from his personal phone. For the first time, we have four freshman radicals stealing the congressional spotlight.<\/p>\n
The combination led to a perfectly moronic tweet storm Sunday from President Donald Trump:<\/p>\n
\u201cSo interesting to see \u2018Progressive\u2019 Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all) \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2009\u2026\u2009Why don\u2019t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came \u2026\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n
And so forth.<\/p>\n
The tweets targeted \u201cThe Squad,\u201d comprised of Reps. Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York; Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan; and Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
We resoundingly condemn Trump\u2019s Squad attack. Not for his frustration, but the way he expressed it.<\/p>\n
Three of the four Squad women don\u2019t come from other countries. They were born in the United States. Only Omar, a Somalia native, has a foreign origin. She earned full-fledged American citizenship as a teenager 19 years ago. This is her country.<\/p>\n
Telling four American citizens to go home gives left-wing Trump opponents exactly what they need to brand the president as \u201cracist.\u201d The tweets energized Democrats to spend Tuesday passing a resolution condemning Trump\u2019s words, instead of doing the country\u2019s real business. The comments united Democrats, who were at each other\u2019s throats, and reignited their impeachment agenda.<\/p>\n
That was one expensive tantrum, President Trump. Hand the phone to an aide.<\/p>\n
Had Trump communicated like a thoughtful adult, he could have enlightened Americans to The Squad\u2019s genuinely anti-American, anti-Semitic sentiments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,\u201d Omar tweeted in 2012, after Israel fought back against rocket attacks by Hamas on civilian targets.<\/p>\n
Omar infamously tweeted how American support of Israel is \u201call about the Benjamins,\u201d exploiting negative stereotypes about Jews and money. She accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of paying Americans \u201cto be pro-Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe might as well call us hook-nosed,\u201d tweeted Jewish journalist Joshua Zeitz. Omar retweeted the comment, as if to agree.<\/p>\n
Although Tuesday\u2019s House resolution calls Trump\u2019s comments \u201cracist,\u201d a March resolution condemning \u201chateful expressions of intolerance\u201d \u2014 inspired by a litany of Omar\u2019s anti-Semitic comments \u2014 does not mention Omar. Such partisan hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
Omar blames terror attacks on the United States, explaining it like this during a PBS Minneapolis appearance: \u201cFor us, it\u2019s always \u2018I must have not done anything. Why is it happening to me?\u2019 Nobody wants to take accountability of how these are byproducts of the actions of our involvement in other people\u2019s affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
No wonder she wrote a Minnesota judge asking for \u201ccompassion\u201d in the case of nine men charged with plotting to join IS. No wonder she described the Sept. 11 attacks on our country as \u201csome people did something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Omar blames the United States for an economic and food crisis, caused by a dictatorial socialist regime, which has Venezuelans eating zoo animals.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2009\u2026 you know, I mean, a lot of the policies, uh, that we\u2019ve put in place has kind of helped lead, um, the devastation in Venezuela and we\u2019ve sort of set the stage, um, for where we\u2019ve arrived today\u2026\u201d Omar said on the internet show \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d<\/p>\n
She even has the gall to blame American soldiers, sent by then-President Bill Clinton as peacekeeping forces during Somalia\u2019s civil war, for harming her native country during the \u201cBlackhawk Down\u201d Battle of Mogadishu. When a tweet commended 19 American service members killed in the battle, Omar responded: \u201cIn his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! #NotTodaySatan\u201d<\/p>\n
Most official estimates put the Somali death toll in the hundreds; none estimate thousands. Regardless, Americans gave their lives to help Omar\u2019s native country \u2014 which her family fled to escape danger and injustice.<\/p>\n
Tlaib, who said the Holocaust provides her a \u201ccalming feeling,\u201d has anti-Semitic credentials so alarming the Zionist Organization of America called for her removal from the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn total, Israel Advocacy Movement identified 18 individuals who she (Tlaib) praised or who are associated with her that are rabid Israel haters and who the organization claims are supporters of terrorism,\u201d reports The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n
Tlaib supports the Boycott Sanctions and Divestment movement against Israel. She defended Omar\u2019s \u201csome people did something\u201d statement by saying Omar \u201cdoes speak truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pressley insulted Customs and Border Patrol agents, saying many are \u201cblack and brown people, because you don\u2019t even need a high school diploma to be a CPB officer \u2026\u2009\u201d The uneducated officers, she explained, become \u201ca cog, in the oppression and incarceration of people who look just like them.\u201d<\/p>\n
In another racist statement Sunday, Pressley tried to dictate what minorities say and do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t need any more brown faces that don\u2019t want to be a brown voice,\u201d Pressley said, addressing the Netroots Nation conference. \u201cWe don\u2019t need any more black faces that don\u2019t want to be a black voice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s ringleader \u201cAOC\u201d Cortez, who says Americans run \u201cconcentration camps\u201d on the border. The state of the union is \u201cgarbage,\u201d she says, despite the hottest and most all-inclusive economy in history.<\/p>\n
Illegal immigrants \u201care more American than anyone who seeks to keep them out will ever be.\u201d Don\u2019t show pictures of 9\/11 attacks because they are \u201ctriggering,\u201d and a \u201cpolitically motivated attack\u201d on Omar for flippantly saying \u201csome people did something\u201d by killing 2,977 on American soil.<\/p>\n
Yes, the Squad appears to hate this country. Yet, Trump made them seem heroic by sounding racist with ignorant tweets.<\/p>\n
Congress and the president need to end the The Mod Squad Circus and get something done. Don\u2019t let four radical and belligerent freshmen, who should toil in obscurity while maturing into office, lead the country\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n