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WASHINGTON, July 20-- U.S. President Donald Trump drew controversy once again by attacking on four Democratic ethnic minority congresswomen, known as "the squad," saying that they should leave the United States if they do not like it. However, of the four Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is known as AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, only Omar was born overseas, in Somalia, but has since become an American citizen according to U.S. media. In what experts say is a tactic of constantly putting himself in the center of the news cycle, Trump called out squad members as "anti-American." The squad grab headlines and national TV coverage almost on a daily basis. But experts said the group is like a media creation with limited political power. Before Trump chimed in, the fight is mostly within the Democratic party. The freshmen lawmakers blasted longtime party leader and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. When Pelosi hit back, the group suggested she was a racist. On Wednesday, squad member Tlalib told CBS that Pelosi, the top ranking House Democrat, should be seeking an audience with the squad, rather than the reverse. "She (Pelosi) can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification," she said. Christopher Galdieri, an assistant professor at Saint Anselm College, told Xinhua that the squad has "received a disproportionate amount of media attention." | 
