# Trump tells Congreswomen go back where you came from **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 14, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068 "2019-07-14T15:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/161 "2019-07-16T15:11:22Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > What exactly have those four accomplished since being elected? :dubious: Besides getting rightwing Dopers to defend the Racist-in-Chief? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/162 "2019-07-16T15:40:06Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > I think Trump essentially got lucky when it turned out that many people don’t care about the racist things he says. And for some people it’s a positive for him to say that stuff. I am concerned that chalking it up to luck is underestimating Trump and overestimating his supporters. He’s not smart, we know that. He does not have the capacity to govern a fish tank, much less a country. But riling up the masses and putting out a populist message, we’ve already seen him succeed in that, we shouldn’t be so complacent to believe that it was just a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/163 "2019-07-16T16:06:27Z")
[Trump: I am boneless.](https://apnews.com/a67df9b560fc416f8326827b36b0de81) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/164 "2019-07-16T16:08:37Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Besides getting rightwing Dopers to defend the Racist-in-Chief? 🆒 In terms of what they’ve accomplished, I know this: It took AOC all of five minutes to elicit testimony from Michael Cohen that congress had a good damn reason to look at Trump’s personal finances. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/165 "2019-07-16T16:13:28Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …I’ve bolded what you ommitted from your original post. …You’re right. What I omitted completely changed the meaning of the accusation. Cortez wasn’t implying that Pelosi was racist. She was implying that she was racist _and_ patronising. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/166 "2019-07-16T17:39:07Z")
I find it incredible that the people most opposed to immigrants are the ones who don’t live near many. The more immigrants around, the more likely a person is to favor immigration. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/167 "2019-07-16T17:44:15Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Besides getting rightwing Dopers to defend the Racist-in-Chief? 🆒 He’s right; that’s hardly an accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Wizerables](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@Les\_Wizerables](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Wizerables)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/168 "2019-07-16T18:01:03Z")
It obviously anywhere near the most egregious or hypocritical things about Trump’s new “if you don’t like it go back where you came from” rhetoric, but it’s absurd to hear it from someone whose campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again” in 2016 and will be “Keep America Great” in 2020. If America wasn’t great prior to January 2017, why didn’t Trump and his supporters leave? If it will no longer be great if Trump loses in 2020, will they leave then? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/169 "2019-07-16T18:03:54Z")
> [@Les\_Wizerables](#): > > If America wasn’t great prior to January 2017, why didn’t Trump and his supporters leave? If it will no longer be great if Trump loses in 2020, will they leave then? So much this ^^^ All I saw on my Fakebook feed from Republishits on election night 2012 was “I’m leavin’ the country!” If only they woulda! ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/170 "2019-07-16T18:32:55Z")
> [@Les\_Wizerables](#): > > It obviously anywhere near the most egregious or hypocritical things about Trump’s new “if you don’t like it go back where you came from” rhetoric, but it’s absurd to hear it from someone whose campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again” in 2016 and will be “Keep America Great” in 2020. > > If America wasn’t great prior to January 2017, why didn’t Trump and his supporters leave? If it will no longer be great if Trump loses in 2020, will they leave then? Substitute “white” for “great” and the meaning becomes much clearer. Keep America white! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/171 "2019-07-16T18:43:31Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > In terms of what they’ve accomplished, I know this: It took AOC all of five minutes to elicit testimony from Michael Cohen that congress had a good damn reason to look at Trump’s personal finances. What legislation (their primary job) have they passed? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/172 "2019-07-16T18:46:28Z")
Hey, that’s a cool question! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/173 "2019-07-16T18:50:50Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > What legislation (their primary job) have they passed? What has that got to do with a racist president and those that support him? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/174 "2019-07-16T18:55:36Z")
Today a reporter asked Kellyanne Conway about the President’s racist tweets. She responded by asking the reporter his ethnicity. In a separate press conference, Mitch McConnell was asked twice if he’d consider ot racist if someone told his immigrant wife to go back where she came from. He ignored the question both times. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/175 "2019-07-16T19:22:34Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Today a reporter asked Kellyanne Conway about the President’s racist tweets. She responded by asking the reporter his ethnicity. > > In a separate press conference, Mitch McConnell was asked twice if he’d consider ot racist if someone told his immigrant wife to go back where she came from. He ignored the question both times. That’s because McConnell’s wife is not from a shithole country like Detroit or the Bronx. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/176 "2019-07-16T19:27:49Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I find it incredible that the people most opposed to immigrants are the ones who don’t live near many. The more immigrants around, the more likely a person is to favor immigration. I don’t think most people are opposed to immigrants, just illegal immigrants. There’s a difference. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/177 "2019-07-16T19:28:03Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s because McConnell’s wife is not from a shithole country like Detroit or the Bronx. She is a citizen of the country of Rich. They don’t have a lot of requirements, just the one. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/178 "2019-07-16T19:38:27Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > What legislation (their primary job) have they passed? Here you go: [https://www.vox.com/2019/5/24/18637163/trump-pelosi-democrats-bills-congress](https://www.vox.com/2019/5/24/18637163/trump-pelosi-democrats-bills-congress) Were you aware that McConnell won’t let the Senate vote on any of this and that’s why they are telling you that the congress hasn’t passed anything? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/179 "2019-07-16T19:39:19Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Absolutely. “how can Trump get so many votes when he’s an obvious and unrepentant racist?” > > Because many, many voters are unrepentant racists. (Sorry in advance for insulting any members of this board who feel that this targets them personally. It is not intended as such. And sorry if I am posting too many times for this thread. ) Well, you see the first time he got elected (and hopefully the last and only time), he out and out lied to a bunch of desperate people in the Rust belt. Hillary didn’t lie to them. They desperately wanted to believe the lie that their factory jobs were coming back to them. Those people werent racist, they were desperate. And in Nov 2016 trump wasnt such a obvious racist. Then there’s the rich. They arent racists, but they dont care that trump is one as long as he delivers those tax cuts- which he did. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068/180 "2019-07-16T19:47:01Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > And in Nov 2016 trump wasnt such a obvious racist. Not to those away from the East Coast, no. The conservative owner of a predominately black Midwestern newspaper endorsed Trump, believing Trump couldn’t be as bad as people were claiming. Only to realize that Trump is actually _worse._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tells-congreswomen-go-back-where-you-came-from/837068.md?page=10)