Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Tweets Leave No Room for Doubt

The president has ripped the band-aid off any reassuring notions the U.S. had about the progress of civil rights and the withering of racism.

July 15, 2019 at 10:04 AM UTC

By Timothy L. O'Brien

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

Made in America: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left), Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. — Made in America: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left), Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.
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As he has so many times since bursting onto the presidential stage in 2015, Donald Trump played the race card on Sunday. He launched nearly three dozen broadsides on Twitter throughout the day, but a trio of his tweets stood out because they demonstrated how casually he likes to uncork his venom and how unwilling the Republican Party is to contain him.

Here are all three of those Trump tweets, which he published at 5:27 a.m. on Sunday, pulled together: