President Donald Trump suggested that Rep. Maxine Waters had called for harm to be done to his supporters.

| Win McNamee/Getty Images Trump mocks Waters as the 'unhinged face' of the Dems

Rep. Maxine Waters' recent foray into the national spotlight has made her “the unhinged FACE of the Democrat Party,” President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday, who elevated her to the level of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and suggested the paid wants to “make America weak again.”

“Congratulations to Maxine Waters, whose crazy rants have made her, together with Nancy Pelosi, the unhinged FACE of the Democrat Party,” the president wrote on Twitter Wednesday. “Together, they will Make America Weak Again! But have no fear, America is now stronger than ever before, and I’m not going anywhere!”


Waters (D-Calif.) has been a focus of the president this week after she urged Trump opponents over the weekend to confront members of the president’s cabinet wherever they encounter them. “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Waters said last weekend in California.

On the heels of protesters chanting at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as she ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington and a Virginia restaurant owner asking press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave, allies of the president have suggested that Waters’ suggestion represents diminishing civility in political discourse.

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Even Pelosi, a fellow California Democratic congresswoman, gently rebuked Waters, calling for a more unifying message with November’s midterms approaching.

Trump himself suggested that Waters had called for harm to be done to his supporters, a point Waters disputed.

"I have not called for the harm of anybody. This President has lied again when he's saying that I've called for harm,” she said this week, according to CNN.