LONDON/Wellington, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised US President Donald Trump for calling on several Democratic congresswomen of colour to “go home”.
The outgoing PM called Trump’s words “completely unacceptable”, according to her spokesperson.
Trump said the women “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe”.
He was referring to four congresswomen – three who were born in the US and one who came as a child refugee.
The women – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, who came to the US as a refugee aged 12 – all called the president racist and were been backed by members of the Democratic Party.
The president wrote: “So interesting to see ‘progressive’ 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), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.”
Prospective Democratic presidential candidates denounced Trump’s tweets as racist and divisive. Republican Party representatives kept quiet.
May resigned as UK prime minister in June after being unable to get a Brexit deal through parliament. Two candidates in the governing Conservative Party are currently vying to replace her.
In WELLINGTON, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined international condemnation of Trump’s xenophobic tweets about progressive Democrat congresswomen.
Ardern, the charismatic young leader who has been hailed as “the anti-Trump” by US media, said she proudly celebrated her country’s diversity.
“Usually I don’t get into other people’s politics, but it will be clear to most people that I completely and utterly disagree with him,” Ardern told Radio New Zealand.
Ardern said New Zealanders welcomed diversity in the corridors of power.
“We take the view that our parliament should be a representative place, it should look and feel like New Zealand, it should have a range of different cultures and ethnicities,” she said.
“And never should a judgement be made about the origin of anyone, and their right, therefore, to be in parliament as a representative.”
Canadian leader Justin Trudeau have also condemned the tweets. — NNN-AGENCIES
