Trump guilty of the oldest racist comment in the book

Telling someone who is black, Asian or, as the Americans seem to prefer, "of colour" to go back to where they belong is the oldest racist comment in the racist handbook. Donald Trump doesn't seem to care what he says most of the time. But on this occasion I sincerely hope he will reflect on his attack on the four Congresswomen of colour which has hit the headlines and apologise to them. Trump picked on the new group of fiery Democratic Congresswomen who have made a name for themselves for being outspoken on many of the domestic issues that have caused such angst for the Trump administration, such as illegal immigration. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Tashida Tlaib (Michigan) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) were clearly the targets of Trump's swirl of unpleasant tweets in which he attacked them and told them to go back to heir countries of origin and sort out the broken and crime-ridden places where they came from. First, three of the politicians were born in the US and the fourth, Representative Omar, came to the US from Somalia at the age of 12. And second, if the four women had been white Trump would not have made such a remark. So it is classic racism and also highly mysogenistic. I think Trump decided to pick on them, not just because they represent for him the worst type of American politician - anti-Trump, Democratic, fearless and opinionated - but because his old enemy Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, has also been pretty vociferous about these four, attempting to get them to shut up and stay out of the news. Trump probably thought to himself, if Nancy can be nasty to them, then so can I and with knobs on. But he went down the worst possible racist route. Even Theresa May, now a week away from no longer being British prime minister, told her spokesman to make it clear she thought the tweets were totally unacceptable. I guess with all the row over Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch's "confidential" views about Trump being inept, Theresa thought she better choose her words carefully. I'm sure what she would have liked to say was that Trump's tweets were disgraceful and racist.