Lessons from Trump’s racist tweets

By JOHAN JAAFFAR

The Bowerbird Writes
Monday, 22 Jul 2019
12:00 AM MYT

PRESIDENT Donald Trump singled out four coloured members of the United States House of Representatives in his recent tweets.

He told them to “help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came from”.

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