Trump’s latest series of tweets telling four Americans to ‘go back where they came from’ is a wonderful thing. It’s a thing of the past. A thing of ignorance and intolerance. And of course, as is everything ‘he’ does, it is very divisive.

What it isn’t is a simple thing. No mere stupid, off the cuff racist comment. But something more calculated, more intentional, more… more Trump.

The very phrase ‘go back where you came from’ would never be shouted at a white person. (In America, obvs, in Nigeria it would be different). Even if that white person is from Poland, Argentina, Glasgow. It can only be said to those who are outwardly ‘different’ in appearance. And the fact that 3 of the four told to ‘return!’ are American born, it actually makes it worse. It makes it ‘go back to the land of your ancestors’ implying that none of them/you belong ‘here’.

The native Americans could tell people to ‘go back where they came from’ and that would be more acceptable. But Trump said it, and said it to ‘The Squad’. The four Democrat congresswomen ‘of colour’. But the problem is that the Squad, essentially, started the whole thing. They are overly defensive and sensitive to all matters regarding race and use it at the forefront of all they do. Quite aggressively. They introduced the race card, and Trump now trumped it. The four women question the Declaration of Independence on grounds of it being racist and sexist, they attack ‘white America’ at every opportunity and, obviously, because they’re ‘radical left wingers’ (by American standards, Corbyn they ain’t), they’re very anti-Israel too.

And Trump’s tweet is very calculated indeed. For the same reason that very few Republicans have come out to censure the pres. over his tweet, it must be assumed that a vast majority of Americans are receptive to the whole ‘go back where you came from’ thing. Its not quite Mississippi Burnin’ but its a phrase that resonates with those whose idea of multi-culturalism is people from Alabama AND Tennessee. And they vote Donald. Yet another shit-storm that will not damage Donald’s re-election chances one little bit. He’s so stupid he’s almost clever again.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx