唐纳德·特朗普总统在一周的推文和评论中指责她憎恨美国，随后众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯周日回击，指责总司令制定伤害美国人和移民青年的政策。
特朗普周日早上发布了又一封攻击奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和国会女议员伊尔汉·奥马尔、阿扬纳·普雷斯利和拉希达·特拉伊卜的密函后，她发表了反驳意见，这些人都是进步的有色人种女性总统和福克斯新闻的经常目标。
“我不相信这四位国会女议员有能力热爱我们的国家，”总统周日早上写道。“他们应该为他们所说的可怕(可恶)的话向美国(和以色列)道歉。他们正在摧毁民主党，但他们是软弱和不安全的人，永远无法摧毁我们伟大的国家！”
特朗普一再试图构建立法者对美国政策的批评——包括质疑亲以色列游说团体以及他们对全民医疗的推动——作为对国家的仇恨。
显然是为了将话题从个人转移到政治上，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯分享了特朗普的观点，并补充道，她和她的同龄人努力保证医疗保健、环境保护、学生贷款豁免和“基本人权”
她进一步将民主党的立场与总统的记录进行了比较，她总结为提高处方药价格，任命教育部长贝茜·德沃斯“欺骗学生”和伤害移民儿童。
特朗普长期以来在推特上嘲笑奥卡西奥-科尔特斯，事实证明，这是一个他们都擅长利用来获取政治利益的平台。但是总统的侮辱在最近几周有所升级，7月14日发送的两条推文迅速遭到民主党和一些共和党人的广泛谴责。
特朗普写道:“看到‘进步’民主党国会女议员如此有趣，她们最初来自政府是一场彻底的灾难、是世界上最糟糕、最腐败和最无能的国家(如果他们真的有一个正常运转的政府的话)，现在却大声而恶毒地告诉美国人民，这个世界上最伟大、最强大的国家，我们的政府该如何管理。”。
他继续说:“他们为什么不回去帮助修复他们来的完全破碎和犯罪猖獗的地方。然后回来告诉我们怎么做。”
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、特拉伊布和普雷斯利都出生在美国。与此同时，奥马尔在小学时作为索马里难民来到美国，17岁时成为美国公民。
美国众议院周二投票通过了一项引人注目的举措谴责特朗普使用种族主义语言在那些火热的信件里。总之，所有240名民主党人投票赞成该决议，还有四名共和党人——得克萨斯州众议员威尔·赫德、印第安纳州众议员苏珊·布鲁克斯、宾夕法尼亚州众议员布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克和密歇根州众议员弗雷德·厄普顿——打破党派界限，拒绝接受特朗普的作品。
特朗普，没有退缩继续的在后续推特和公开声明中表达类似观点。
周三，在北卡罗莱纳州的一次竞选集会上，他把怒火集中在奥马尔身上，特别是激励他的支持者高呼“送她回去！”反复。据报道在共和党人的压力下那些在他圈内的人，总统自此困惑谴责哭泣和支持哭泣的人。
2019年5月13日，在DC华盛顿州霍华德大学的集会上，美国众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(纽约民主党)发表讲话。亚历克斯·王/盖蒂图像公司
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ RESPONDS TO TRUMP'S TWITTER TIRADE: 'YOU HURT IMMIGRANT KIDS'
After a week of taunting tweets and remarks from President Donald Trump accusing her of hating America, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired back Sunday and accused the commander-in-chief of enacting policies that hurt Americans and immigrant youth.
She issued the retort after Trump released yet another Sunday morning missive attacking Ocasio-Cortez and fellow Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib—all of whom are progressive women of color and frequent targets of the president and Fox News.
"I don't believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country," the president wrote Sunday morning. "They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak & insecure people who can never destroy our great Nation!"
Trump has repeatedly tried to frame the lawmakers' critiques of American policy — including their questioning of pro-Israel lobbying groups and their push for universal healthcare — as hatred for the country.
In an apparent effort to shift the conversation from the personal to the political, Ocasio-Cortez shared Trump's post, adding that she and her peers fight to guarantee healthcare, environmental protections, student loan forgiveness and "basic human rights."
She further compared those Democratic stances to the president's record, which she summarized as hiking prescription drug prices, appointing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos "to scam students" and hurting immigrant children.
Trump has long pilloried Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, a platform they have both proven adept at using for political gain. But the president's insults escalated in recent weeks, with two tweets sent on July 14 earning swift and widespread condemnation from Democrats and a few Republicans.
"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 (if they even have a functioning government at all), now 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," Trump wrote.
He continued: "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how."
Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Pressley were all born in the United States. Omar, meanwhile, came to the U.S. as a Somali refugee during grade school and became a U.S. citizen at 17.
In a striking move, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn Trump's use of racist language in those fiery missives. All told, all 240 Democrats voted in favor of the resolution, along with four Republicans—Rep. Will Heard of Texas, Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan—who broke party lines to repudiate Trump's writings.
Undeterred, Trump continued to express similar views in follow-up tweets and public statements.
At a North Carolina campaign rally on Wednesday, he focused his ire on Omar, in particular, inspiring his crowd of supporters to chant "Send her back!" repeatedly. Reportedly under pressure from Republicans and those within his inner circle, the president has since waffled between condemning the cries and supporting those who made them.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC.ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
