WASHINGTON ¨C President Donald Trump drew fresh criticism on Sunday with an eighth day of attacks on the four progressive Democratic Congresswomen known as ¡°the Squad,¡± whom he said he didn¡¯t believe were ¡°capable of loving our country¡± and should apologize for ¡°hateful¡± comments.

Sunday¡¯s Twitter message came after the president said on July 14 that the women, all minorities, should ¡°go back¡± to the ¡°corrupt and inept¡± countries they came from ¡ª a message condemned by Democrats and some Republicans as racist and divisive.

Trump is spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The latest tweet came minutes after a segment on one of the lawmakers, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, on Fox News Channel.

Three of the women of the Squad ¡ª Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts ¡ª were born in the U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was born in Somalia and immigrated as a child.

Trump last week briefly attempted to distance himself after people attending his campaign rally in North Carolina started a ¡°send her back¡± chant in response to his criticism of Omar. Since then, though, he¡¯s reversed that disavowal, saying the people at the rally were ¡°incredible patriots.¡±

By contrast, Trump called the women of the Squad, all first-term lawmakers, ¡°weak & insecure people¡± who are ¡°destroying the Democrat Party.¡±

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said Sunday that Trump is ¡°worst than a racist¡± and compared the president to George Wallace, a former governor of Alabama known as an opponent of the civil rights movement.

¡°He¡¯s actually using racist tropes and language for political gain, to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself,¡± Booker said on CNN¡¯s ¡°State of the Union. ¡°This is somebody who is very similar to George Wallace, to racists who use the exact same language.¡±

White House adviser Stephen Miller, who has drafted some of the president¡¯s most hawkish immigration policies, defended Trump on ¡°Fox News Sunday.¡±

Miller said there was a difference between Ocasio-Cortez¡¯s use of the word ¡°garbage¡± to illustrate the need for more ambitious policy initiatives, policies, and Trump¡¯s use of the term in a 2014 tweet, when he said of former President Barack Obama: ¡°Everything he touches turns to garbage!¡±

Trump last week falsely claimed that Ocasio-Cortez had termed U.S. people ¡°garbage.¡±

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said on CNN that he¡¯d like to see ¡°everybody tone down their rhetoric.¡± Asked about Trump¡¯s latest tweet, Johnson said ¡°that¡¯s his opinion and I don¡¯t agree with it.¡±