Boris Johnson says Donald Trump's Twitter attack was 'inappropriate,' but stops short of calling it racist
LONDON — Boris Johnson, the former U.K. foreign secretary, said Donald Trump's Twitter attack on Democratic congresswomen of color was"totally unacceptable," adding that he could not understand why the U.S. president had made them.
Trump tweeted Sunday that the four women, who"originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe," should"go back" and fix issues in those countries before telling him how to run the U.S. government. Asked at the debate multiple times whether he though the remarks were racist, Johnson — who is the front-runner in the contest to be the U.K.'s next prime minister — refused to condemn them as such. But he said:"You can take from what I’ve said what I think about Mr Trump’s remarks."a spokesman for Theresa May
Johnson's rival for the leadership, Jeremy Hunt, who is the current foreign secretary, said it was"totally offensive ... that people are still saying that kind of thing."
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