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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) had some strong words for President Trump on Sunday. In appearances on CNN's _State of the Union_ and CBS' _Face the Nation,_ Booker tore into Trump over

his racist tweets directed at four democratic congresswomen. A lot of the discourse around Trump's tweets has been about whether Republican members of Congress were willing to condemn

them, or the president himself, as racist. Booker, of course, is not in the GOP, but the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate took the discussion to a new level. In his CNN interview,

Booker said Trump "is worse than a racist." SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE &

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morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. He doubled down on that line in his CBS interview, telling host Margaret

Brennan that Trump is "using race like a weapon" to divide the country. He also added that this issue went beyond politics for him — if it had been a Republican on the receiving

ends of the insults, Booker says he would react the same way. Tim O'Donnell Explore More Speed Reads