Trump's attacks on Congresswomen challenge the idea of America

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Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, two of the four lawmakers known as "the squad" in Congress recently came under attack by President Donald Trump via Twitter.
A series of tweets from US President Trump criticising young progressive female members of Congress has elicited responses not only from Democrats but also British Prime Minister Theresa May. PHOTO: THE WASHINGTON POST
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WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's tweets on Sunday (July 14) telling a clutch of young progressive female members of Congress to go back to the foreign countries where they came from point to the core of the political divide in the United States which is over the very idea of America.

"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world... loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," the President tweeted.

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