Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, shared a video of the event, calling it the "sound of illberalism, intolerance."He noted that the chanting was "a danger not just to immigrants and minorities, but to all Americans.""Put politics aside," he said. "Time for leaders from all parts of society, people from all walks of life to step up and say: enough."The “send her back” chants were wrong, vile, and don’t reflect who we are as Americans. I strongly oppose @IlhanMN views and policies but those chants have no place in our society.
— Matt Brooks (@mbrooksrjc) July 18, 2019
On Thursday night Trump also distanced himself from supporters' chants of "send her back" after he criticized Omar."I felt a little bit badly about it," Trump said to the media at the White House. "I would say that I was not happy with it. I disagreed with it."“Let ’em leave,” Trump said at the rally, referring to Reps. Ilhan Omar [Minnesota], Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [New York], Ayanna Pressley [Massachusetts], and Rashida Tlaib [Michigan], a group of young Congresswomen known as "the Squad."“They’re always telling us how to run it, how to do this, how to do that. You know what? If they don’t love it, tell ’em to leave it.”This led to his supporters to chant "send her back" in reference to the Somali-born Ilhan Omar.Trump had previously written on Twitter that if the group of congresswomen are not happy living in America they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday night condemning Trump for his "racist comments".This is the sound of illberalism, intolerance. Listen closely: it's a danger not just to immigrants and minorities but to all Americans. Put politics aside. Time for leaders from all parts of society, people from all walks of life, to step up and say: enough. https://t.co/ArYeu2KQu4
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) July 18, 2019