Porto Ricans are American citizens congressman.
RepJasonSmith Did you yell “Go Back to Puerto Rico!” Did you do this in Committee? Should punishment be Censure or Expulsion? SpeakerPelosi GOPLeader ThisWeekABC MeetThePress jaketapper CNNPolitics SenGillibrand jasonsmith SpeakerPelosi gop maga trump
Now Puerto Rico is used as a pejorative. I don’t buy this apology orchestrated when caught. No committees please.
michaelscherer Unconscionable
Had he been a Democrat an apology would’ve been sufficient. End of story.
It's ridiculous that he apologized. Everyone knew what he meant as well as this lawmaker. I'm tired of everyone looking for a reason to be offended
JasonSmithMO apology along is a bandaid over a cancerous heart. Now we all know the true you.
Goes to show his ignorance. Puerto Rico is not some foreign country. It's part of the United States... GOP are sooo stupid.
Another fake apology from a fake human being ... oops, I mean from a Republican. GOP RepJasonSmith
Coward couldn't even walk to his office to do it face-to-face.
He should be removed from office. Where's the uproar from the right on this? They went crazy over 'impeach the motherfucker' saying how uncivilized she was.
JasonSmithMO you should be ashamed of yourself. Resign immediately as you are a poor excuse of a congressman for your racism and ignorance. P.S. Puerto Rico is part of the U.S.
Send him back with Steve King
He needs to be fired. This president has let things run straight CRAZY!
AnitaChristine1 it's a wasted apology it's too damn late
Like King he needs to be removed from all committees NOW!
People like this Congressman secretly wish all peoples other than those of his background would leave. His anger let slip his true nature .
He's just repeating the RepubliCON line, what holes does the GOP crawl out of?
Wow yelling at another us citizen racist must go
Apologies mean nothing if the words are not truly meant. He will do it again.
mmmmm I wonder why the Republican Party has been deemed racist by so many people?
pas5974 Nope! You meant it. No apology needed, thanks for your candor. Know your enemies.
Shouldn’t he be sacked?
He deserves s Censure.
nowealthcare Let me take a wild guess ... He's a Republican
If Republicans aren’t racist, why are they always saying racist things?
That’s both horrible and uneducated. He should not be in office, given his ignorance. 🤬🤬
Apology NOT accepted. Should be recalled if he does resign!
Give us his name
continuing to spoon feed the few mindless followers who still take you seriously I see 👍
Thats like breaking a plate and gluing it back together. It cant be unbroken. And shows your racism. There is no place for it in this day age. Grow up please
Even IF you believe the comment was made in reference to dems visiting PR the complete cluelessness of shouting it when a rep of Hispanic descent was about to speak is an example of how incapable these fools are of imagining anyone else’s reality but their own.
Do we need guess which political affiliation? Didn’t think so😬
Unacceptable! Have a shred of decency and resign. This country deserves someone more competent. You wouldn’t be a bus driver, a teacher, a sales clerk if you spoke like that at work.
Yes he’s right to admonish him. But please stop pronouncing Puerto Rico with an accent if you don’t have an accent, it just makes it seem foreign to many Americans.
Gee are you sure it wasn't a half assed apology 😈😈😈😈😈
When will these assholes learn we are not living in the Jim Crow days .
But his true beliefs are out
Trump emboldened this sort of speech among other things. We are letting him destabilize America. His office is filled with cowards, liars and traitors. We the people must take the fight to him & his house. ImpeachTrumpNow EndTrumpShutdown justiceforthepeople resist
I guess you will apologize the next time, because there will be a next time!!!! what kind of Congressman (whom people look up to) would say something like that? You just lost all credibility
Kick him out of office.
Well you need to have manners.
TYPICALGOPRACIST
JasonSmithMO Another Trump White Nationalist!
Wow
... at some point if they keep sinking any lower they have to hit bottom, right?!
Removehim from office! ENOUGH!!!
He needs to be fired.
Why is racism so embedded into the Republican party? The party of Capital K's lol
He should be sanctioned.
He should be ousted from all committees
If it's not sincere why apologize?... apology not accepted...
Not good enough
I am so over these MF apologies , you thought it, you said it! Good bye!
Racism has taken over the GOP. Its rampant folks. Let's stop debating time to Either ImpeachTrumpNow Or 25thAmendment But he's got to go.....
Disgusting racism.
Another 'white washed' apology..when will they learn
Ah.... Missouri... it sucks here. Sorry America
Look another gop bigot ... surprise surprise
Big surprise learning this is an GOP creep. The racism is front with our GOP friends. So many examples.
He needs to be removed from the seat!
Sad
There's no place for racism in America, especially nit in the body elected to representative us. He should be censured and resign.
Then... all the smart said Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. Thank you. Now quit whining and go be productive!
NOT.ACCEPTABLE.PERIOD JasonSmithMO Resign or Censure
You see not everyone with certain status positions in public life have education with common sense for if he did, he would have known that Puerto Rico is part of the USA. He is therefore lacking in most areas.
Too late
Throw that bigot out of office strip him of everything.
Jason Smith from Missouri district 8.
What’s wrong with these people.
oufenix Nah. He can go to hell.
JuddApatow Ah making friends and influencing people. I wonder why the GOP can’t grow as a party. So much for the old abolition and reform party. Now the racist and corporate party.
For him.......
No sale: he was “speaking to all the Democrats who were down vacationing in Puerto Rico last weekend during the shutdown, not any individual.”
And, this Congessman is an adult, right? His racism is showing.NoRoomForRacism
Go back to the Ozarks!!!!
I bet he enjoys carrying that tiki torch.
He is a racist
Too little, too late hombre
His apology ain’t shit!! He’s a racist!! He gots to go!!
Well, that's a start. The guy who yelled liar to president Obama has never apologized.
denicolo_chuck He needs to be censured, then resign. He is not fit to represent people.
This man needs to resign!
do not accept his apology....
Hey dickweed, PR is part of the US and it’s citizens are Americans ... Oh yeah RepJasonSmith you’re tantrum today ...
Nope ! Apology not accepted !
Nope. Stop letting these guys fake apologize. Start removing them and they will learn. Apology Not Accepted 👎🏾
Cause you got caught. It’s ok the stains will come out of your sheet.
Wait, what? He told a Mexican-American from California to “go back to Puerto Rico?”
realDonaldTrump ananavarro nytimes He can keep his apology and disappear. Nothing he says will take away the insult nor do we forgive him. Racism has no place in the world or government & he should be removed from office just like Trump who insulted many including Puerto Rico
Republican Rep. Jason T. Smith needs to IMMEDIATELY be dealt with ... censured and removed from Congress.
Sorry not sorry.
RepJasonSmith the fact you had to yelled out in public to “return to PR” tends to lend itself there’s a bit of racism in your bones ... I hope you are much more than that!
iam_seanbond It was one more uncivil rudeness in a long line of Republican uncivil rudenesses over the years. Ironic that just months ago Republicans were lamenting about the lack of civility in our discourse...
That’s good.
I am sorry 😐 . Please excuse my racism.
The GOP are increasingly showing their core beliefs,of racism and seperation. When the leader of the Republican party openly admits, he's ' proud to be a Nationalist' there isn't an uglier incident that would top that.
But Steve Scalise said no GOP person would say such a thing!
He can go to hell . He said it and meant it so apology should not be accepted.
Apology not accepted
Too late. A bigot is a bigot. End of story. Force him out.
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Too late. When will the House determine if he should be censured?
JuddApatow Even if Puerto Rico wasn’t a US territory his remarks are those of mentally weak xenophobes. If you cannot make sense of your position you are unworthy of public service and your position is shit.
I don't follow and nobody I follow retweeted or liked this, it doesn't say it was promoted, and yet it still shows up in my feed. And when I click the link to your article it's a paywall. Meh.
I am not SHOCKED🤔
he needs to be censured.. enough with these racist congressmen! Enough is enough!
An apology to a 'colleague' is better than nothing but we need to know where insult came from in the first place. What does where anybody or their parents are born have to do with their worth or how we should treat them? In what way could one person going away help the other?
Not good enough. No normal person says this for any reason, ever. Only a person who is racist to the core would say this.
Can he just resign - go home? The inability to control yourself in public would be a criterion for Not being a congressman
Wt?
Whatever in mind comes on lips.. certain people's mentality is still ugly&nasty. Everyone like their grandpa who came f4m out of this country & now citizens, considering as foreigners. These people are so foolish that they don't know every candidate in congress is American.
You know if it were me, I wouldn’t accept his apology. He didn’t mean it and he’s a racist bastard!
JasonTSmithAUS is this u Congressman?
Fahrenthold Dumbfuck's Hall Of Famer.
Fahrenthold When the rep from CA asked the group who said it (twice), Smith was mute. He apologized from the physical safety of his office.
I would apologize to all Puerto Ricans if I said that too. No way I would want those scumbags on that beautiful island.
Why are we waiting until the 5th paragraph to name the person the story is about
Rep. Jason Smith: contact him at: 2418 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-4404 Fax: 202-226-0326 He says on his website that 'Pelosi is only offering $1 for border security,' clearly a man who thinks facts (& truth) just get in the way.
This stems from the president in the WH who condone this. Steve king and this poop guy need to resign. This isn’t who we are
As he should.....never should have said it.... 'Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks'....
Idiot!!
His career as a congressman should be over. Anyone that would yell something like that has no business being a congressman. Period!
Anyone who reads the news knows what the congressman was talking about. Fake news.
WTF
He should be censored.
His Resignation is all I would accept.
Kris_Sacrebleu It's good to apologize, but our reps are supposed to be the cream of the crop, the best of the best, and this kind of thing didn't strike him as a bad thing to do at the time. Hmmmm.
Expel him.
Anyone with a brain knew he was talking about the Democrats on vacation... they’re doing absolutely nothing and might as well have stayed on vacation. Oh wait they tried and their travel plans were diverted. 😉grounded!
Today you can do whatever you want as long as you apologise after.
If Cardenas was raised in Pacoima, CA, there are many Mexican immigrants there, but no Puertoricans. This is a hoax for the Wapo lemmings.
Yup when social guard is burned by the hate 😠 prejudice the ugly face of racism burst open
Fahrenthold He should resign - zero tolerance for this behavior.
Before I read it: it was a Republican who said it.
Should be censured.
A GOP congressman no doubt.
Kick his ass out.
Kris_Sacrebleu Hope they told him to F OFF!
Kris_Sacrebleu Who is the congressman?
liberalease 🤦🏼♂️
Kris_Sacrebleu The are all following the 🤡
It was and will always be too fucking late. Censure, removal from committees and possible expulsion. These are the remedies for this ongoing BS from the GOP
Kris_Sacrebleu Unacceptable
He should be fired immediately.
RepJasonSmith, another racist working for the gov't, nothing new. It would be important to discuss this issue at length. It is necessary to Identify and Tackle animosity to stop it effectively.
Resign
Typical racistrepublican comment. Attack, insult and denigrate with racial slurs, give a fake apology and all is forgiven... Where is the outrage of the right now?
Dems were not “vacationing” They were attending a charity production of Hamilton. The charitable funds are to help the arts recover in Puerto Rico. This was set up long ago. Trump and GOP hate our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico but Dems do not. They flew over to help. GOP racism
Bobduff1 Resign JasonSmithMO. You and your bigotry don’t belong in US Congress.
Looks like Devin, doesn’t he?
LindseyGrahamSC thinks its social media & NAACP are tellings us not to vote republican. Man everything about the REPIBLICAN PARTY screams KKK, not to mention that you lock up babies & babies habe died on y'all watch 3 babies that we know of GTFOH
You know, these crazy statements are taking the Congress back decades, maybe centuries.
I suspect that had they held their meeting at a trump property trump would not be complaining.
Fahrenthold Putz...
Too late you already showed you’re whiteness
God forgives, we will never forget. There is no place in America for racist Nazis, especially as a member of the House of Representatives.
Apology NOT accepted! You need to be removed!!!!
JuddApatow Not enough. He shouldn’t be in office. As a citizen, I want him out.
Fahrenthold An apology isn’t enough. There is no excuse, in the year 2019, that people are free to blurt out racist & sexist things,then get away with just a “sorry”. Nope.Enough already. If you are in office,you work for the people. You are a public servant. Act like an adult,respect others
RepJasonSmith needs to resign or be kicked off any committee he is on and be censured
JuddApatow ☝🏽 ☝🏽 ☝🏽 The answer to “Why do people call Republicans racists?”
I'm so sick of the fake Republicans, who need to think before they speak, make a unprofessional statement & then come back & apologize. If Jason Smith had thought before he yelled go back to Puetto Rico, he wouldn't have said it, but he meant just what he said.
Looks like RepJasonSmith staff didn’t get the apology memo. He should fire press secretary Joey for that wildly partisan and inappropriate comment in this story. We don’t need unelected staff waging partisan warfare on the taxpayer’s dime.
Fahrenthold Surprised WaPo didn't qualify the apology. We have no idea what was said only that the alleged victim accepted it as an apology. And no context that initially it was claimed to be directed at all Democrats. Yet only the Latino one got a phone call.
Apology not enough!!
He should be censured
RepJasonSmith backpedaling his racism, now says he meant the delegation who visited Puerto Rico to review the ongoing post-Hurricane Maria recovery effort. WHICH MAKES WHAT HE SAID EVEN WORSE. The VICTIMS don't deserve the ATTENTION RepJasonSmith ?
Go back to hell.
Kimsuesmom He should be fired
JuddApatow RepJasonSmith You need to resign. This behavior and rhetoric is shameful and not far off of Steve King’s racist comments. It’s fine that you apologized, but you have shown to be untrustworthy of working for ALL American citizens, especially our citizens in Puerto Rico. shame
JuddApatow so many racist republicans
Apologies are worthless
No excepted
Rep Jason Smith just bared his soul. Doesn't look good, does it?
Fahrenthold Not good enough.
Throw a plate on the floor. It shatters. Tell the plate you’re sorry. All better? NO! Racist pig represents GOP
'apologizes'...? This is not kindergarten... It doesn't all go away with an apology. He is supposedly a grown man. Racism should not be tolerated in Congress.
Fire him!
Rep. Jason T. Smith (R. - Mo.) In the world of headline-only-readers, state the asshole’s name.
Fahrenthold Yeah right. He said he didnt mean to single out anyone, but to all democrats.
Fahrenthold He needs to be strip of his duties! This is racist!!!!
REPUBLICANS, A GROUP OF PEOPLE INCAPABLE OF CHANGE STUCK IN THE PASS.
I just don’t get why people affiliate themselves with the GOP and act as though we are not seeing what we are actually seeing. The foundation is clear.
Ah yes, another fine member of the republikkkan party
Fahrenthold
JuddApatow He must resign.
Another one who didn’t pay attention in history class. Another one who needs to be taught a lesson. Bye Felicia 👋🏼
Too late! He owns it now.
He was sadly mistaken. Navarro is from Nicaragua.
Nazis.
Fahrenthold He needs to be primaried
I'm so sick of stupid apologies. Get some discipline, dude. And remember: 'out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks.'
Let me guess. A white Republican? A white Christian? A white something.
The GOP’s not even attempting to hide their racism anymore. This Party needs to go the way of the dinosaur. Soon.
The GOP! But not as your grandparents remember it. What is happening to this country?
Maybe this incident doesn't fit, but It's diminishing to the spirit of civility to see how the GOP and his support use the Trump standard as permission to behave in the most graceless manner and leave them feeling they are doing something noble and patriotic.
In this day and age discrimination should be extinct. Who really believes there are purebreds still. We are all one race, the human race. Let’s work together to make this world a better place people...
He should be fired
That’s a good start. He could go all in and champion the funding for PR recovery. That would be impressive. I’ll wait...
Representative Jason Smith (R-MO) needs to be censured for his behavior. Stripped of his committee appointments, just like Steve King.
Fahrenthold He should be expelled.
Is the whole Republican party racist? It's obvious they have a huge problem! Who would want to vote for representatives like this? Not me.......not ever.
Unsurprisingly, his TL is a string of right wing garbage and trump worship
wrongestwrong I
Ugh MO... of course.
“I’m sorry for being racist. I’m an adult and an elected member of Congress. I didn’t know any better.”
No one will ever accuse republicans for not being racist and bigots
This is absolutely unacceptable.
51stStateNow
Fahrenthold He's shown us who he is.
He’s from Missouri, it all makes sense
Why? Maybe that colleague should go back to Puerto Rico if he likes it there so much.
Fahrenthold No he needs to resign.
Fahrenthold Throw the stone, then apologize... Now we are supposed to clap?
Showing his true colors
The fact the words were on his lips and he could say them so easily. We'll leave out the PR is in the United States. So, as Maya Angelou would say: 'when they show you who they are -- believe them'
How is this acceptable? If I shouted at a colleague at work, especially using such an inflammatory remark, my job would be in jeopardy. Embarrassed that this congressman is representing my state.
I wouldn't expect anything less from a Republican. These loud-mouthed people talk a big game but when they're confronted they act like cowards. At least we know who the real snowflakes are.
Fahrenthold Knew it was going to be a republican before I opened the story.
Call his name.
That's just being rude
How about apologizing to your constituents.
tripgabriel
Fahrenthold Why did it take so far into the story to name Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Mo.)?
Fahrenthold Given how insincere I suspect that apology was, I hope it was respectfully declined
Disgusting and not good enough
step the hell down! Cleary, this guy can't represent the people of the US, if he talks this way
Fahrenthold GO BACK TO KENTUCKY
Fahrenthold Resign RepJasonSmith you disgraceful bigot. Not only racist, but on the floor of the House? Embarrassment Don’t give us Christian values speech, because your actions don’t match.
I’m sure it was sincere...
Fahrenthold Appalling
he needs censured
Of course it is a white male - he must be so proud
Wipipo!
He should resign
The headline doesn't say which party he belongs to, be we all know which party he belongs to
RepJasonSmith and all the other politicians, both R and D, have set the tone our nation now hears. Hate, bigotry, racism and intolerance resonates from our leaders. And we, the people, are guilty for electing them. Character is lost in DC.
What type of sh*t is that?
GOP. Cant stop wont stop - being racist
Resign Racist!
Not enough. He should be reprimanded for his behavior, like King.
He should be fired.
He will be brown nosing soon enough
So at least we know, you can run America or work in the highest gov't offices and actually know fuck all bout your own country. Too much itsallpartofamerica
Why apologize to your Latino colleague? Apologize to all the rest of us who have to share oxygen with you.
JasonSmithMO is merely following the lead of the head of his 5th grade class, Donald Trump.
Who raised these men ffs
We are all tired of that 'both sides are responsible' for the racism, shutdown, the bad government, the Russians controlling the POTUS, etc. Nuh uh!
How does he apologize for who he is?
Time for him to go home, permanently.
Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Mo.) is a racist bigot. Shame on him.
Sorry doesn't cut it.
Another mindless idot in office thru election rigging. realDonaldTrump's cheatin' crew. BBCWorld cnni voxdotcom BuzzFeedNews axios TIME WSJ NBCPolitics hardball MeetThePress maddow nytimes NewYorker thehill guardianworld
Another GOP Racist
Now you know how 'Black Folks' heard for Centuries and them some
In which context was it said? Racially or like go back to PR and keep partying?....because if it was racially motivated he should resign.
Needs to go.
Why do you keep calling him “congressman” in the description and headline. Are you afraid of naming him?
There is no end to the republican crazies!
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