Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro described President Trump
Donald TrumpHouse panel tees up Trump executive privilege fight in Jan. 6 probe Romney: Afghanistan crisis the fault of both Biden, Trump administrations Biden allies say media missing the mark on Afghanistan MORE’s recent tweets attacking progressive congresswomen as "disgusting" and "racist," but suggested that such language is par for the course for the president.
“Everybody knows that the president acts like a white supremacist. He is a racist, he’s made that clear on so many different occasions,” Castro said Monday on CNN’s “New Day.”
Castro, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary under former President Obama
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"The question is, what are we as Americans going to do about this," Castro said.
“It’s disgusting, it’s racist…everybody knows that the President acts like a white supremacist,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate @JulianCastro says about President Trump’s tweets attacking the progressive freshmen congresswomen.https://t.co/B4W6Mqyq4n pic.twitter.com/17u2NCHTfw
— New Day (@NewDay) July 15, 2019
Castro added that it's not the first time the U.S. faced a leader "that made their whole career on being racially divisive."
"And in every generation Americans were able to rise up and push back and be better and more inclusive," he said. "That's the question for this election. Are we going to go forward to an America that continues to expand opportunity and get closer to words in our founding document? Or are we going to go backward?"
On Sunday, Trump tweeted that a group of progressive Democratic congresswomen should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."
Though he did not name the lawmakers, the president appeared to be attacking Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Democrats have widely rebuked the comments as racist. Despite pushback, the president later doubled down on this tweets.
