President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE on Tuesday said that "petrified" Democrats are afraid to take on a group of progressive congresswomen, showing no sign of easing up his attacks on the lawmakers.

Trump accused the women, whom he did not name, of "spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician."

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He lamented that the lawmakers, presumably referring to Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOn The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline McCarthy says there will be a peaceful transition if Biden wins Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid MORE (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar Ilhan OmarOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Trump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' Democrats scramble on COVID-19 relief amid division, Trump surprise MORE (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib Rashida Harbi TlaibTrump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' George Conway: 'Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand' Pelosi endorses Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate primary challenge MORE (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley Ayanna PressleyFauci, Black Lives Matter founders included on Time's 100 Most Influential People list Trump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' Pressley applauded on House floor after moving speech on living with alopecia MORE (Mass.), "get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party."

He added that "Democrats are afraid to take them on" because they are the "Radical Left."

The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public..... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

.....shouting of the F...word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

His tweets follow attacks on the minority congresswomen that have been condemned as racist by Democrats and a few Republicans.

Trump on Sunday tweeted that progressive lawmakers should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump tweeted.

Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, is the only one of the four congresswomen who was born in a different country.

The group of lawmakers decried the remarks in a press conference late Monday.

“This is the agenda of white nationalists,” Omar said of what she called the president's “blatantly racist attack.”

Two GOP House members, Reps. Reps. Will Hurd (Texas) and Michael Turner (Ohio), called Trump's tweets racist in statements.

The House is expected to vote late Tuesday on a resolution to condemn Trump's Sunday tweet as racist.

Updated at 8:05 a.m.