Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday described President Trump’s remarks telling a group of Democratic congresswomen to go back to the countries they came from “completely unacceptable,” according to a report from the BBC.
May, who has been insulted herself by the U.S. president, made the comment about Trump through a spokesperson. The prime minister is set to step down in the coming weeks.
{mosads}Just last week, Trump criticized May as “foolish” for her failure to secure a deal to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union.
The insults came after a series of leaked cables showed former British Ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch had belittled Trump. The president also insulted him repeatedly over Twitter as a “fool,” very stupid” and “wacky.”
May has previously criticized Trump for comments made in the wake of the deadly violence at a 2017 white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., but Monday’s comments are the most direct indictment of the president.
Trump’s remarks about the Democratic congresswomen seemed to target Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
Only Omar was born outside the U.S. Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley were all born in the U.S.
Trump’s quotes have widely been called racist. The New York Times in a story on Monday wrote that Trump “saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it.”