Former US First Lady Michelle Obama stepped on Friday after several days of controversy over President Donald Trump's remarks against several minority congressional women. For her, the "greatness" of America comes from its "diversity". "What really makes our country so great is its diversity," tweeted Michelle Obama, barely disguising Donald Trump's slogan for the 2016 presidential campaign: "Render America its grandeur" .
"I have seen this beauty in so many different ways over the years," she continued. "Whether we are born here or have sought refuge here, there is a place for us all." "We must remember that it is not my America or America, it is our America," she concluded.
What makes our country great? I've seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are here or seek refuge here, there's a place for us all. We must remember it's not my America or your America. It's our America.
- Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) July 19, 2019"Send it back, send it back!"
The US president has been engaged since Sunday in a verbal battle with several elected representatives of the House of Representatives, all from minorities, whom he has notably asked to "leave" the United States if they do not "like". The controversy started again when the audience came to its meeting on Wednesday night and chanted "Send it back!" after the evocation by the president of Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
Unlike the other three women targeted by the Republican billionaire, who were born in the United States, Ilhan Omar arrived child as a Somali refugee. Donald Trump tried Thursday to distance himself from the songs of his supporters, without convincing. And Friday morning, on Twitter, he attacked the media coverage - "crazy", according to him - shouts of his supporters Wednesday night, while denouncing the "unhealthy alliance" of the media with his opponents Democrats. Asked later on Friday about his opinion on the content of these cries, the president described his audience as "incredible people".
It is amazing how the Fake News Media became "crazed" over the song "send her back" by a packed Arena (a record) crowd in the Great State of North Carolina, but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen ...
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2019"I am convinced that Donald Trump is a fascist"
"I'm not happy when a parliamentarian says 'I'm going to be the president's nightmare'," he said, referring to statements Thursday by Ilhan Omar. "I'm sure he's a fascist," she said about the billionaire. "The nightmare (of Donald Trump) is to see a Somali refugee coming to Congress," she said. Replica: "She's lucky to be where she is, let me tell you, and the things she said are a shame for our country."