New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday joined international condemnation of US President Donald Trump's xenophobic tweets about ...
"We take the view that our parliament should be a representative place, it should look and feel like New Zealand, it should have a range of different cultures and ethnicities," she said.
"And never should a judgement be made about the origin of anyone, and their right, therefore, to be in parliament as a representative."have also condemned the tweets, while Democratic presidential candidates have labelled Trump racist. Ardern has not been shy about highlighting her differences with Trump in the past, advising him to send"sympathy and love to all Muslim communities" in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre in March when a gunman killed 51 worshippers.
Shortly after Ardern's stunning election win in late 2017, Trump met her at a summit in Vietnam and joked she had"caused a lot of upset in her country". "You know, no one marched when I was elected," she retorted, referring to the protests that followed Trump's victory in 2016.
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