worse than deplorable. when they call our country garbage, i don t care about politics. i don t care if it s good or bad about politics. reporter: now, we should note that none of the democratic house freshmen that the president has been attacking has referred to america or americans as garbage. but the president has sought to tie those progressive house members to the larger dem craftic party in an attempt to paint all democrats as radical. that s something that we could see emerge as a theme of his re-election race. that certainly was a theme wednesday night at that rally. the president clearly, though, victor and christi, not abandoning what people call racist attacks on the four democrats. sarah westwood. we appreciate it. let s talk about this and more with david graham a staff writer for the atlantic and recently published a title called an oral history of
have called america or americans garbage and think have not said that they hate america as president trump has claimed, but he is showing no signs of slowing down this effort to try to paint these congresswomen as anti-american. sarah westwood, thank you very much for the update on the president. turning now to david swerdlick assistant editor for the washington post, and cnn political commentator, and martha tolllard is a cnn analyst. thank you both for joining us. david, let me start with you. we are seeing the often-used pattern here from the president from charlottesville, and locker up chants and wondering that the president starts a controversy and then embraces it, and then begins to distance from it. is this just a president who can t seem to get the story straight or is this really a strategy that he believes in? yeah, martin. good morning. so the president was against send her back before he was for it, right. and so you have hit the nail on the head there.
comment you can feel free to correct me that any of them have set positive about america or americans. they re here asking for radical reform on the basis that this country is fundamentally irredeemable. that is the message. what s problematic about the way they are conveying their messages, they are actually falling into really bad stereotypes of what it means to be a person of color in this country. a really bad stereotype about black americans is that we are gang bangers and ignorant and we threaten people and we are violent. we have ayanna pressley tweeting to kellyanne conway hi, becky, remember that racist pejorative that the media roundly ignored? high matt, becky. imagine if you called mission equal. but with the media response be to that. he said keep my name out your mouth. think about this, congresswoman speaking about like that. it s republicans and democrats coming together to try and come up with something to make americans feel like we can work towards a solution is
america or americans. here s why. they say the americas encompasses a lot more than the united states when we talk about americans in the united states, we re usually just referring to people. it depicts the united states as the dominant american country. instead, people they say should use u.s. citizens or people from the united states. i d love to see what social media has to say about this one. they say it doesn t refuse my american dollars. another twitter user says is calcolorado no longer in americ, when did it move. they tell students not to use terms like freshmen and policemen. use police officer and first year students. bernie sanders, this is an incredible moment. you can t time this more perfect
correct me that any of them have set positive about america or americans. they re here asking for radicale reform on the basis that this country is fundamentally irredeemable. that is the message. what s problematic about the way they are conveying their messages, they are actually falling into really bad stereotypes of what it means to be a person of color in this country. a really bad stereotype about black americans is that we are gang bangers and ignorant and we threaten people and we are violent. we have ayanna pressley tweeting to kellyanne conway hi, becky remember that racist pejorative that the media roundly ignored? hi, becky. imagine if you called. but with the media response be to that. he said keep my name out your atuth. think about this, congresswoman speaking about like that. it s republicans and democrats coming together to try and comee up with something to make americans feel like we can work towards a solution is country. these women are doing the opposite. laur