Ocasio-Cortez: ‘It’s time to move on’ from Trump’s conception of America

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said on Monday that America needs to move past how President Trump sees the country.

“I think it’s unfortunate that he feels the way he feels about people of color in this country, it’s unfortunate the way he feels about immigrants, naturalized citizens or not, in this country,” Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC.

{mosads}“What I would tell him is: It’s time to move on from him, and it’s time to move on from his conception of an America that we have tried to move past for a long time.”

“He relies on racism, division and anti-immigrant sentiment to consolidate power because he does not have a positive vision for the future of America,” the New York lawmaker added. 

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to President Trump on Monday: “It’s time to move on from his conception of an America that we have tried to move past for a long time.” pic.twitter.com/X11dSsxGdt

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The comments from Ocasio-Cortez came in response to a tweet Sunday in which Trump targeted an unnamed group of progressive congresswomen “who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.”

In the tweets, which seemed to be directed at Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), the president suggested they “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

All four of the freshman congresswomen are U.S. citizens, and only Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, was born outside the U.S.

The comments have widely been condemned by the Democratic Party as racist. Republicans have also criticized the remarks, but only two, Reps. Will Hurd (Texas) and Michael Turner (Ohio), went as far as calling the tweets racist.

Ocasio-Cortez on Monday tweeted that the remarks from Trump use “hallmark language of white supremacists.”

She previously said that “the country I ‘come from,’ & the country we all swear to, is the United States.”