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A senior adviser for Trump’s 2020 campaign, Katrina Pierson tweeted on Wednesday and mocked the white attire, which was worn in honor of the women’s suffrage movement. She is working as Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and she compared the white outfits worn by a group of Democratic women to the State of the Union to the robes of the Ku Klux Klan.

Katrina Pierson said in her Tweet, “The only thing that the Democrats’ uniform was missing tonight is the matching hood”. She was referring to the white robes associated with the racist American group. One of the most visually striking moments during the State of the Union address came from the dozens of women who wore white including the president’s adult daughter Tiffany Trump.

A new Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the event was held in order to mark the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. She added, “And there’s so much more and we have to fight for. From wage equality to pay-cheque fairness in order to protect ourselves, and believing survivors”. Pierson was among several conservative and right-wing commentators to denounce the women.

Trump himself noted that women had filled more jobs in the past year than men, and congratulated the historic number of women who won election to the U.S Congress last year during the 2018 midterm elections. A radio host Mark Simone mocked the women and like Pierson made a reference to the Ku Klux Klan. “Simone wrote, “The Democrat women all dressed in white to show solidarity with the Ku Klux Klan? As a tribute to Good Humor salesmen? To look like insane asylum attendants? Do they like dressing like Charlie Chan”?