{"id":223054,"date":"2019-07-16T01:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223054"},"modified":"2019-07-16T01:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T05:22:25","slug":"uk-leadership-contenders-criticize-trumps-lawmaker-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/16\/uk-leadership-contenders-criticize-trumps-lawmaker-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"UK leadership contenders criticize Trump&#8217;s lawmaker tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1150556166566633472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 British Prime Minister Theresa May and the two men competing to succeed her condemned U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s berating of four female lawmakers of colour but stopped short Monday of calling his remarks racist.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted Sunday that the liberal Democrats should go back to the \u201cbroken and crime infested\u201d countries they came from. All four are American citizens and three were born in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>May, who is set to step down next week following her resignation over Brexit, thinks \u201cthe language which was used to refer to the women was completely unacceptable,\u201d spokesman James Slack said.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the two politicians in the runoff to replace May as Conservative Party leader and U.K. prime minister, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said Trump&#8217;s remarks were \u201ctotally unacceptable in a modern multiracial country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are the leader of a great multiracial, multicultural society, you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from,\u201d he said during a debate with Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>His political rival echoed the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have three half-Chinese children,\u201d said Hunt, whose wife is Chinese. \u201cAnd if anyone ever said to them, &#8216;Go back to China,&#8217; I would be utterly appalled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Hunt \u2014 who as foreign secretary is Britain&#8217;s top diplomat \u2014 balked when asked whether he would call Trump&#8217;s comments racist, instead noting that the United States is Britain&#8217;s closest ally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not going to help the situation to use that kind of language about the president of the United States,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Johnson declined to answer when he also was asked if Trump&#8217;s words were racist.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come at a testy time for U.K.-U.S. relations. The trans-Atlantic relationship has been rattled in the last two weeks by the Mail on Sunday newspaper&#8217;s publication of leaked diplomatic cables from Britain&#8217;s ambassador in Washington criticizing the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded by calling Ambassador Kim Darroch \u201cvery stupid\u201d on Twitter and cold-shouldering him. Darroch resigned, saying he could no longer do his job.<\/p>\n<p>Trump defended his tweets about the congresswomen, taking to Twitter again Monday to demand apologies from the four Democrats and claiming \u201cso many people are angry at them and &amp; their horrible &amp; disgusting actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. 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