The hashtag #RacistPresident trended on Twitter Monday as a host of lawmakers condemned 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 for suggesting that a group of progressive congresswomen should go back to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came."

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was one of many Twitter users to use the hashtag as he announced his plans to bring an impeachment vote to the floor of the House of Representatives. The congressman, a repeated critic of Trump's, said he was bringing forth the vote because of "bigotry in policy, harmful to our society."

calling for impeachment then voting him out . That’s the tweet . #RacistPresident — Janelle Monáe, Cindi (@JanelleMonae) July 15, 2019

If you have any doubt that #Nadler and #Pelosi are blocking #impeachment, watch this video.



Nadler's quote: "You don't necessarily launch an impeachment against the president because he committed an impeachable offense."#SilenceEqualsCompliance #RacistInChief #RacistPresident pic.twitter.com/MMduvYfKHX — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) July 15, 2019

New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio Bill de BlasioOVERNIGHT ENERGY: California seeks to sell only electric cars by 2035 | EPA threatens to close New York City office after Trump threats to 'anarchist' cities | House energy package sparks criticism from left and right EPA threatens to close New York City office after Trump threats to 'anarchist' cities New Year's Eve in Times Square to be largely virtual amid pandemic MORE (D) also used the hashtag while describing Trump as someone "obsessed with trying to make American HATE again."

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Trump is obsessed with trying to make American HATE again. https://t.co/by2jjc4gtG #RacistPresident — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 15, 2019

The response from lawmakers and the public came one day after Trump targeted a group of female congresswomen, saying that they should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came" before speaking out about how the U.S. government should be run.

Trump did not identify the lawmakers. But the comments came amid a week of escalating tension between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a group of four freshman House Democrats — Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.).

Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley were born in the United States. Omar was born in Somalia before coming to the U.S. as a refugee with her family.

"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 on Sunday.

"Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done," he added. "These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough."

Several Democratic lawmakers, as well as multiple GOP lawmakers, have derided the remarks as "xenophobic" and "racist." Ocasio-Cortez said the statements showed Trump couldn't "conceive of an America" that includes elected women of color.

Pelosi on Monday urged House Democrats to support a resolution condemning Trump over his comments.

"The House cannot allow the President’s characterization of immigrants to our country to stand. Our Republican colleagues must join us in condemning the President’s xenophobic tweets," she wrote in a letter to House Democrats.

Trump, meanwhile, has stood by his remarks, telling reporters that he wasn't concerned about the interpretations of his comments.

“It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me,” he said, adding that the lawmakers he targeted “hate our country."

The hashtag #RacistInChief took off on Sunday after Trump’s initial tweets.