Kellyanne Conway to reporter asking about Trump's racist tweets: 'What’s your ethnicity?'

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway didn't do much to make President Trump's recent racist comments directed at four Democratic congresswomen look any better. She might have made things worse, though.

During a press conference on Tuesday, when reporter Andrew Feinberg asked Conway what countries Trump was referring to in his tweets (considering three of the four congresswomen Trump told to "go back" to the "places from which they came" were born in the United States), Conway responded by asking "what's your ethnicity?" Feinberg protested the relevancy of her question, while Conway explained that her ancestors were from Ireland and Italy.

She then went onto argue that the president told the congresswomen to return to the countries they came from "originally," which is true. But it also implies that Conway believes a person's country of origin is based on where their ancestors lived rather than where a person was born, which is not true. Watch the full exchange below. Tim O'Donnell

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