WATCH: Pelosi calls Trump’s tweets about congresswomen 'racist' in House speech

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned President Donald Trump’s tweets in which he told four minority congresswomen to “go back” to their home countries. “These comments from the White House are disgraceful and disgusting, and these comments are racist,” Pelosi said during a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Pelosi spoke ahead of a vote on a resolution to denounce the president’s comments.

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