Trump news: AOC, Ilhan Omar, Pressley and Tlaib slam 'hateful actions' of 'racist, xenophobic' president

Here's some more of the outraged reaction to the president's racist tweets.

ICE director Mark Morgan was on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday to defend the raids on urban migrants, where he was rightly challenged by anchor Margaret Brennan on why they were ordered at a time when the focus should surely be on the crisis in US detention centres, a problem he blames on Congress denying sufficient funding to Border Patrol.

Morgan - who has enough on his plate - wisely sidestepped an invitation to explain the racist tweets.

Meanwhile on State of the Union, acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli was there to defend the ICE agents themselves, insisting they are "compassionate" people.

Bill de Blasio was also on that show and launched into a coruscating attack on ICE and Trump that is well worth your time.

Jane Dalton has this on the anti-ICE protests held over the weekend in Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York in opposition to the raids.

Here's Adam Forrest on AOC hitting back at Trump by calling him a "white nationalist". 

Let's change tack and look at a different crisis momentarily.

President Trump seems to have lost interest in Iran for the moment - having come mighty close to blasting the country with airstrikes over a downed drone last month - but the powers that be in Europe have warned that their continued support for the rogue state's nuclear deal is dependent on Tehran coming back in line with provisions limiting its stockpiles of enriched uranium.

Here's our political editor Andrew Woodcock with more.

In addition to slamming Trump's racism, 2020 candidate Beto O'Rourke also took to the internet on Sunday to explain that he had recently been handed genealogical documents confirming that both he and his wife Amy had ancestors who were slave owners.

"That those enslaved Americans owned by my ancestors were denied their freedom, denied the ability to amass wealth, denied full civil rights in America after slavery also had long term repercussions for them and their descendants," O'Rourke wrote in a post on Medium.

"I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at the expense of others.

"We all need to know our own story as it relates to the national story, much as I am learning mine. It is only then, I believe, that we can take the necessary steps to repair the damage done and stop visiting this injustice on the generations that follow ours."

The debate over reparations for the ancestors re-entered mainstream American political discourse in June when the House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on the issue in a decade.

Here's the latest installment from The Donald, who appears to have finally, comprehensively lost the plot.

This was prefaced with a boast about the impact of his tariffs are having on the Chinese economy, including the vague claim that "thousands of companies are leaving".

This is timely stuff from the increasingly impressive Warren.

On Morning Joe, they're wondering "how is it possible" Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell can say "no comment" when asked about the Trump tweets.

Joe Scarborough speculates Trump is lashing out because he is "humiliated" after he was forced to back down on the 2020 census last week and because his long-trailed ICE raids have so far not amounted to the spectaculra show of force he was hoping for.

Here's more from the president, losing all touch with reality in describing "the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen".