Following an earlier segment on Fox & Friends, Trump made bigoted remarks attacking Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), telling them to “go back” to “crime infested places from which they came.”

About 20 minutes before this morning's grotesque Trump rant, Fox & Friends ran a segment about “the Squad” and aired comments Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley (both born in the U.S.) made at Netroots Nation. Left, Fox & Friends Sunday, 8:06 a.m.

Right, Trump, 8:27 a.m. pic.twitter.com/BPClb9Ir1x — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 14, 2019

While many commentators noted the open racism of Trump's remarks, Fox & Friends praised Trump for “making an important point,” even laughing along as they read what he wrote.

From the July 14 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: