Fox & Friends praises Trump's bigoted tweet telling Democratic congresswomen to leave the United States

Fox & Friends cohost Jedediah Bila says that Trump is “making an important point”

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Following an earlier segment on Fox & Friends, Trump made bigoted remarks attacking Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), telling them to “go back” to “crime infested places from which they came.”

About 20 minutes before this morning's grotesque Trump rant, Fox & Friends ran a segment about “the Squad” and aired comments Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley (both born in the U.S.) made at Netroots Nation.



Left, Fox & Friends Sunday, 8:06 a.m.

Right, Trump, 8:27 a.m. pic.twitter.com/BPClb9Ir1x

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 14, 2019

While many commentators noted the open racism of Trump's remarks, Fox & Friends praised Trump for “making an important point,” even laughing along as they read what he wrote.

From the July 14 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

Fox & Friends laughs while reading Trump's bigoted “go back to Africa” tweets: Trump is “very comedic” and he is “making an important point” pic.twitter.com/T0mLYQxvmC

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) July 14, 2019

Related:

Washington Post: Trump says four liberal congresswomen should ‘go back’ to the ‘crime infested places from which they came’

Previously:

How Fox News lashes out at women of color in Congress

Tucker Carlson: “Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country”

How the Trump-Fox feedback loop nationalized a local city council vote