While defending Trump, Kellyanne Conway asks reporter: 'What’s your ethnicity?’

Conway asked, "What's your ethnicity?" when a reporter asked her to clarify what President Trump meant by a series of racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen.
While defending Trump, Kellyanne Conway asks reporter: 'What’s your ethnicity?’
Conway speaking to the press at the White House. Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / Getty Images

Kellyanne Conway seems to think it's OK -- and even relevant -- to ask what someone's ethnicity is during a press conference. It's not.

Today, reporter Andrew Feinberg asked Conway to clarify what President Trump meant by a series of racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen this week. In response, Conway asked, "What's your ethnicity?"

When Feinberg asked why this was relevant, Conway told him that her ancestors are from Ireland and Italy. Feinberg responded that “My ethnicity is not relevant to the question I’m asking you.” 


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"He's tired," Conway said. "A lot of us are sick and tired in this country of America coming last."

President Trump's original tweets targeted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, who are all American citizens.

In the original tweets, the president urged the congresswomen to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

On Monday, the four women held a press conference to respond to the comments, thanking people for their support. Pressley said that President Trump "does not embody the grace, the empathy, the compassion, the integrity that that office requires and that the American people deserve."

On Tuesday morning, Trump fired off a new series of tweets, alleging "I don't have a racist bone in my body." He also accused the congresswomen of hating America.

Trump is no stranger to causing a stir with racist comments. And it seems that the people close to him like Kellyanne Conway will continue to defend him.

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