Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said during an interview that aired Tuesday on Hill.TV that President Trump has become a “megaphone” for white nationalism in the United States.
“He is a megaphone for white nationalism in the United States,” Williamson said. “And unfortunately, he is also a megaphone for this kind of autocratic right-wing fascistic-tending pattern throughout the country.”
“People underestimate the danger represented by this presidency,” she added.
Williamson pointed to Trump’s recent attacks against several Democratic minority lawmakers.
“He took off after the ‘Squad,’ he took off after Elijah Cummings,” she said. “It’s not hyperbole to say that if you didn’t know better, you’d think he was stoking a race war.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to Hill.TV’s request for comment.
Trump on Tuesday said he had no regrets about his criticisms of House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), and maintained that his remarks were not racist.
Over the weekend, Trump tore into Cummings and the city of Baltimore in a series of tweets, saying people in “corrupt” Baltimore are “living in hell.” He also lashed out at Cummings, calling the prominent African American lawmaker a “racist” and dismissed his oversight of the administration as a “joke.”
“I’m the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
The president also once again slammed Rev. Al Sharpton, who has emerged as a critic of Trump’s attacks, repeatedly calling him a “racist.”
Trump’s renewed attacks on Cummings and Sharpton comes less than a month after he went after four freshman Democratic congresswomen known as the “Squad,” including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.).
Trump tweeted for the minority lawmakers to “go back” to where they came from, though all four women are U.S. citizens and three were born in the U.S.
The Democratic-led House subsequently passed a resolution officially condemning Trump’s tweets as racist.
—Tess Bonn
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