By now you’ve seen or heard about these three tweets from President Donald Trump this morning where he told the 4 squad members to go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” and “then come back and show us how it is done”:

Let's call the president’s racist attack exactly what it is: un-American. pic.twitter.com/fDeC5ka01F — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 14, 2019

Even Geraldo Rivera called out the president over the tweets, calling them “xenophobic even racist”:

Sad to watch my friend @realDonaldTrump take low road regarding @AOC of the Bronx, @RashidaTlaib of Detroit @AyannaPressley of Boston & @Ilhan of Somalia & Minneapolis. Let’s stick to issues & steer clear of language that’s xenophobic even racist. @POTUS you’re better than that. — Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) July 14, 2019

But whatever you think of them as a Trump supporter, what they did do is give Dems a “life raft” at a time when they were participating in a circular firing squad:

Trump's racist tweets, in addition to being awful in their own right, managed to throw a life raft to Dems who can now unify around condemning his comments. — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) July 14, 2019

Even the “come back” qualifier probably won’t help stop the criticism, as Guy Benson notes below:

Yup. And parsing that he told them to go, then come back, probably won’t quell much of the criticism. The opposition was ripping itself apart. Rather than sitting back & letting it unfold, he does this. Can’t help himself. https://t.co/zQF8fIqD2H — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 14, 2019

But then it got even crazier. Here’s Washington Post editor Karen Attiah calling out Nancy Pelosi for her attacks on the squad and saying she inspired Trump’s tweets:

Make no mistake: Nancy Pelosi’s dogwhistling snipes at @AOC, Ilhan Omar, @RashidaTlaib and @RepPressley helped pave the way for this vicious, racist attack from the president. https://t.co/zdvpo23gtr — Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) July 14, 2019

This is a legit “LOL” moment:

Both sides are doing very badly today:

All Trump had to do was sit back and let Democrats fight but he couldn't

His tweets were a gift to the Democrats allowing them to unite Major Media only had to sit back and wait but of course they couldn't

Apparently it is the *Democrats* fault Trump tweeted Here we go… https://t.co/Ly0MQmalKa — Tim Pool (@Timcast) July 14, 2019

Just when it looked like liberals could find their way out of the circular firing squad. https://t.co/WYdMuOfVeC — Chris Barron (@ChrisRBarron) July 14, 2019

"Nancy Pelosi is inspiring Trump's racism" is the take we've all been waiting for. https://t.co/OFjkTLm53m — neontaster (@neontaster) July 14, 2019

So, just to be clear, Trump's racism this morning was… *checks notes* …Nancy Pelosi's fault. Fabulous. https://t.co/5f3DNEShBS — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 14, 2019

She also took issue with Maureen Dowd over her column defending Pelosi:

See how quickly we have moved from two powerful white women, @maureendowd and @SpeakerPelosi helping each other to attack women of color over a nice box of chocolates… ..to the president telling them to leave the country. — Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) July 14, 2019

She went on to call Dowd, Pelosi and Trump the “axis of shevil”:

What people need to see in this newly formed @maureendowd /@SpeakerPelosi / @realDonaldTrump axis of shevil is that white supremacy relies on dismissing, silencing, and undermining women of color. Putting them in their place by any means necessary. — Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) July 14, 2019

Hahaha!

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