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Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Donald Trump, asked Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter for Breakfast Media, “What’s your ethnicity?” during a news briefing outside the White House on Tuesday. Her question came immediately after Feinberg asked her about Trump’s racist tweets directed at four congresswomen.
Here’s a transcript of the exchange:
FEINBERG: Following up on the previous question: If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring?
CONWAY: What’s your ethnicity?
FEINBERG: Um. Why is that relevant?
CONWAY: No, no — because I’m asking a question. My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy.
FEINBERG: My own ethnicity is not relevant to the question I’m asking.
CONWAY: No, no, it is, because you’re asking, he said originally, he said originally from.
FEINBERG: But you know I’m asking —
CONWAY: But you know everything he has said since and to have a full conversation —
FEINBERG: So are you saying that the president was telling the Palestinian [inaudible] to go back to —[crosstalk]
CONWAY: The president’s already commented on that and he’s said a lot about this since that one tweet. He’s put out a lot of tweets and he made himself available to all of you yesterday —
FEINBERG: No, just to the pool.
CONWAY: He’s tired. A lot of us are sick and tired in this country of America coming last. To people who swore an oath of office. Sick and tired of our military being denigrated. Sick and tired of the Customs and Border Protection people — I was with — who are overwhelmingly Hispanic in McAllen, Texas — sick and tired of them being criticized.
Feinberg’s question followed up on tweets that Trump posted, criticizing the so-called “Squad” of four Democratic congresswomen — including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
