House Votes to Condemn Trump’s Racist Comments

U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar at a press conference at the Capitol on Monday. President Trump has accused the “squad” of hating America and has said they should “go back” to where they came from.

Published July 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Tuesday evening passed a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.” The vote went mostly along party lines. The measure was a severe rebuke of the racist president who continues to spew out hatred towards people of color.

After Sunday morning’s Tweet in which Trump told four freshmen minority Congresswomen to “go back: to the country from where they are from. All four, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, are in fact citizens of the United States and would not be eligible to be members of Congress without such status.

Trump tweeted earlier Tuesday: “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” However, his actions and verbal assaults present an opposite impression. The House Democrats proved they were tired of the ongoing racist behavior that is not becoming a president of the United States.

The 240-to-187 vote is viewed as a strong condemnation of Donald Trump.

Four Republicans voted with all of the Democrats — Reps. Will Hurd (Tex.), the only African American Republican in Congress; Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Susan Brooks (Ind.) and Fred Upton (Mich.) Independent Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), who quit the GOP on the 4th of July, also voted for it. Six Republicans did not vote.

“I know racism when I see it. I know racism when I feel it. And at the highest levels of government, there is no room for racism,” Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the Civil Rights icon.