On Wednesday morning, on the City Hall steps, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, left, led councilmembers, other elected officials and interfaith leaders in condemning what they called Donald Trump’s “ongoing racist and anti-immigrant remarks.”
“Enough is enough. Ya basta!” Mark-Viverito declared. “There is nothing left to say about Donald Trump other than he’s a disgusting, racist demagogue who has no business running for president, period.”
The press conference came on the heels of Trump’s saying that immigration to America by all Muslim immigrants — and even the return here by Muslim Americans traveling abroad — should be banned for right now. In his defense, Trump referenced the Japanese internment camps during World War II.
Among the others at Wednesday’s press conference were Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James, Councilmembers Margaret Chin and Ydanis Rodriguez and Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of the gay-and-lesbian Congregation Beth Simchat Torah synagogue.
