Trump a racist: OcasioCortez
Sitting across from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Anderson Cooper appeared somewhat hesitant to pose his next question.
“Do you believe President Trump is a racist?” Cooper asked haltingly during a 60 Minutes
interview with the 29-year-old congresswoman that aired Sunday.
Ocasio-Cortez, however, didn’t pause before responding firmly: “Yeah. Yeah. No question.”
The exchange has since gone viral with many praising Ocasio-Cortez for yet another moment of uninhibited candor while others were quick to criticize Cooper’s questions, specifically drawing attention to when he asked the young congresswoman about how she can say the president is a racist.
After Cooper pressed her to explain, she added, “The president certainly didn’t invent racism, but he’s certainly given a voice to it, and expanded it, and created a platform for those things.”
Then, Cooper asked Ocasio-Cortez if she thinks the president “is a racist,” to which the new congresswoman responded authoritatively with the succinct four-word answer that threw the Internet into a frenzy.
Last year, Trump drew widespread condemnation for reportedly referring to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries.” In August, former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released audio on “CBS This Morning” that was said to be of her and two other black Trump campaign staffers talking about the alleged existence of a tape that captured Trump using the n-word, The Post reported.