Ellison's Advice to Confront Racist Trump Agenda in 2018: 'Organize, Organize, Organize'

As fallout continues over the president’s offensive language during a closed-door meeting in the Oval Office, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) argued that Donald Trump’s specific word choice is irrelevant—”he has a long history of racism”—and that in the year ahead the public must “organize, organize, organize” to defeat his agenda.

Speaking to MSNBC‘s “All In” on Monday, Ellison, who also serves as co-chair of the DNC, said that “whether [Trump] said ‘shithole’ or ‘shithouse,’ he has deprecated people and people of color, people who are Muslim, people who are Mexican. He has done it for literally years.”

The task at hand should be to decide “what are we going to do about it,” he said.