Donald Trump impersonates Asian negotiators during Iowa rally
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At a campaign stop Tuesday in Iowa, Donald Trump used broken English to impersonate Asian businesspeople.
"Negotiating with Japan, negotiating with China, when these people walk into the room, they don't say, 'Oh hello, how's the weather, so beautiful outside, isn't it lovely? How are the Yankees doing?'" Trump said. "They say, 'We want deal!'" Trump made the comments hours after tweeting that fellow Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush "offended" Asians by saying the term "'anchor babies' applies to them as a way to be more politically correct to Hispanics. A mess!" Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
