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Over the weekend embattled President Donald Trump released a series of tweets attacking a group of progressive congresswoman known as ‘The Squad.’ The group consists of Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The tweetstorm told the group, who are all non-white, to quit complaining about America and “go back to their countries.” However, only one of the four is foreign born. Omar is a refugee from Somalia and is now an American citizen.

This tweetstorm confirms, what I, and other liberal writers, have been screaming for the last three years — Trump is a racist. Of course, this was pretty evident. Trump has displayed his racial animosity for almost four decades. From refusing to rent homes to black tenants, calling for the death of the Central Park Five, using racial epithets directed at black contestants on “The Apprentice,” to accusing the first black president of not being an American citizen, it was obvious where he was coming from.

We tried to warn America about the danger of the president of the United States being a racist, but Americans didn’t listen. Now Trump is president, and true to form, he has continued to make racist statements and also enact a white supremacist agenda.

Trump isn’t the first racist to occupy high office, but as long as that person keeps his personal opinions to themselves, life goes on. But Trump hasn’t, his policies and agenda are also white supremacist. When you look at the sum of Trump’s policies, such as the Muslim ban, building the wall, waging war on Latino immigrants and saying he wants more immigrants from Norway, they add up to legalized ethnic cleansing.

Trumpists want to Make America White Again. Trump supporters have said they want to return America to the 1950s, a time when white men had all the prominent jobs in the country.

African-Americans have watched in trepidation as Trump has enacted his agenda. As Trump worked his way through all the other non-white groups, black people started to wonder if they were next. And they should be worried. Trump’s latest comments line up with statements made by alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer. A few months after Trump’s election, Spencer was captured on video holding a Trump rally where he used Nazi rhetoric and threw up a Nazi salute. (He called it ironic.)

But even more disturbing is that Spencer has said one of his policy goals is deporting all non-white people from the United States, even if they’re citizens.

“Our dream is a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans. It would be a new society based on very different ideals than, say, the Declaration of Independence,” said Spencer in a Vice interview.

So even if you’ve been here for seven generations, if you’re as dark as George Lopez, you’re out. Ridiculous, right? Surely that could never happen. That’s what I thought, but then Trump got elected and started talking about revoking birthright citizenship and telling Pressley, a black woman born in Chicago, to go back to her country.

When the president of the United States starts using neo-Nazi rhetoric, it’s time to be afraid.

Author Stephen King said Trump was worse than any monster he had created. He also predicted the rise of a demagogic politician in his 1979 book “The Dead Zone.”

“I know that American voters have always had a real attraction to outsiders with the same kind of right-wing ‘America First’ policy,” King said. “And if that reminds people of Trump, I can’t be sorry because it was a character that I wrote. It was a boogeyman of mine, and I never wanted to see him actually on the American political scene, but we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.”

However, King’s monsters are fictional, Trump is real and he’s sitting in the White House.