Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., explained his vote against Tuesday’s House resolution condemning President Trump’s tweet that suggested four Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to their home countries by saying he is “a person of color.”

“You know, they talk about people of color,” Kelly told a Vice News reporter before the vote. “I’m a person of color. I’m white. I’m an Anglo Saxon. People say things all the time, but I don’t get offended.”

All 235 House Democrats voted in favor of the resolution that decried the president’s tweet as “racist,” while all but four Republicans in the chamber voted against the measure.

The term “people of color” has historically referred to nonwhite racial and ethnic minorities.

“He does not offend me,” Kelly said of Trump. “Are some people offended? I’m sure. But there’s people offended no matter what he says. If he says ‘good morning,’ they’re unhappy about it.”

Kelly, a 71-year-old Pittsburgh native who has been a U.S. representative since 2011, said he’s been told to go back to his home country too.

“With a name like Mike Kelly you can’t be from any place else but Ireland,” he said. Read more

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Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., explained his vote against Tuesday’s House resolution condemning President Trump’s tweet that suggested four Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to their home countries by saying he is “a person of color.”

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., explained his vote against Tuesday’s House resolution condemning President Trump’s tweet that suggested four Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to their home countries by saying he is “a person of color.”

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., explained his vote against Tuesday’s House resolution condemning President Trump’s tweet that suggested four Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to their home countries by saying he is “a person of color.”