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Trump to congresswomen of colour: Leave the US

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US President Donald Trump has been accused of racism after posting tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen.

He claimed the women “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe”, before suggesting they “go back”.

The tweet was directed at a group of four congresswomen of colour; three were born and raised in the US while the fourth moved to the US as a child.

Republican Party representatives kept quiet amid a wave of criticism.

The women – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, who came to the US as a refugee aged 12 – have all called the president racist, and have been backed by members of the Democratic Party.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx in New York, approximately 12 miles away from the Queens hospital where Mr Trump himself was born.

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