"In August, on the Bill Maher show, when challenged by Catherine Rampell, then a Washington Post journalist, I said that as a child of immigrants I thought the president telling the women of [Democratic faction] “the squad” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – to go back to the countries they came from was wrong (all but one were born here), a form of racism, and the kind of thing my grandmother had been forced to put up with, and that since Trump was the president, I wished he wouldn’t speak like that."
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First seen: 2026-09-12 ·
Last seen: 2026-09-12 ·
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