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Posted: 2019-07-18T01:21:43Z | Updated: 2019-07-18T12:21:50Z

Greenville, N.C. President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on four freshman Democrats in Congress, all women of color, saying that if they dont like America, let them leave.

I have a suggestion for the hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down, Trump said at a rally for his reelection campaign in North Carolina on Wednesday after finishing a long diatribe naming Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).

Thats why I say: If they dont like it, let them leave, Trump said. If they dont love it, tell them to leave it. Im just saying its their choice, they can come back when they want.

I think, in some cases, they hate our country, Trump added, doubling down on similar remarks hed made earlier this week. And theyre so angry.

Earlier this week, the president tweeted a racist rant clearly aimed at the four lawmakers, saying they should go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.

All four are American and all are women of color. Only Omar was born outside the U.S. The next day at a White House event, Trump reiterated his comments, railing against the congresswomen as people who hate our country.

Amid a public outcry, House lawmakers approved a resolution in a contentious vote on Tuesday to condemn Trumps words as racist .

As Trump named each of the congresswomen at his rally, the crowd loudly booed. In response to his remarks about Omar specifically, people launched into chants of Send her back!

Trump repeated his previous attacks against Omar one of the first Muslim women in Congress saying she has a history of vicious anti-Semitic attacks and that she minimized the Sept. 11 attacks on our homeland, saying some people did something.

Omar has faced controversy since she came into office for questioning the U.S. relationship with Israel, comments some painted as anti-Semitic. The president was also apparently referring to a misleading video he tweeted in April, splicing together comments Omar had made with footage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The video pulled a single line from a roughly 20-minute speech Omar gave, saying: [The Council on American-Islamic Relations] was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.

After Trump attacked Omar in April as ungrateful and anti-Semitic, the congresswoman received death threats .

Of Tlaib, also one of the first Muslim congresswomen, Trump said at the rally that she used the F-word to describe the presidency and your president. (He was apparently referring to Tlaib having said: We should impeach the motherfucker .)

With the big, fat vicious the way she said it F-word. Thats not somebody who loves our country, Trump said.

When Trump mentioned Ocasio-Cortez, his crowd of supporters booed loudly.

[Vice President Mike] Pence went down and looked at these so-called horrible concentration camps. They said, Wow, these places ... have air conditioning, they have water, Trump said. These people come from rough places. Some of them said, Weve never lived like this before. They have water, air conditioning. Her talking about drinking water from toilets, which was a lie.

Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez and other members of Congress visited migrants held in detention centers in Texas. The congresswoman said that women in a detention facility in El Paso were in cells without water and at least one said officers told her to drink out of the toilet . She condemned the horrific conditions in the detention centers, calling them concentration camps .

Cortez they said thats not her name, I said, I dont have time to go through three different names, so well go with Cortez, Trump said of the New York lawmaker.

And to Pressley (whose name was also greeted by loud boos from the crowd), Trump claimed, she thinks that people with the same skin color all need to think the same.

She said, We dont need any more brown faces that dont want to be brown voices. We dont need black faces that dont want to be a black voice, he said, apparently referring to remarks Pressley made in a speech at the recent Netroots Nation conference calling for representatives in elected office to speak out on issues facing marginalized communities.

Can you imagine if I said that? Trump said Wednesday. It would be over. It would be over.

Before Trump spoke, the vice president addressed the rally. Though Pence didnt mention any of the Squad by name, he seemingly referred to some of their remarks, decrying radical Democrats who accuse Border Patrol of running concentration camps, use anti-Semitic slurs to denounce support for Israel, and continually attack America.

A couple of hours before the president arrived at the rally, Thomason Lawrence, a 20-year-old in a red MAGA hat from Harkers Island, North Carolina, stood beneath the stage where Trump would speak.

He coulda worded it differently, Lawrence said of the presidents tweets about the four congresswomen. But if someone doesnt like being in this country, then they should leave. If youre in a restaurant, and you didnt like the restaurant, you get up and leave.

Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of the president and an adviser to his 2020 reelection campaign, addressed the crowd in Greenville about an hour before Trump spoke, saying: If you dont love our country the president said it...

Leave! the crowd replied.