Go Back

Donald Trump made one of his trademark profoundly racist comments yesterday when he said that four Congresswomen of color who routinely criticize him that they should go back to the countries where they came from (details here).

Except as it turns out, three of the four women in question were born and raised in America.

This is another poisonous apple from Trump's birther tree. If you're not white like him, he assumes, you can't be an American. This was at the root of his disgraceful and false claims that President Obama was not born in the United States when, of course, he was, simply because he was not white. He's made similar remarks about Kamala Harris, the USA-born African- and Asian-American Senator from California who is running for President.

In response to Trump's racist tirade, Yoni Appelbaum at The Atlantic penned a biting piece (link here) that it's Trump who should go back to where he came from, specifically Queens, New York. The way Appelbaum describes it, the Queens of yesteryear sounds like a dirty, corrupt hellhole, the perfect spawning ground for a creature like Trump.