WASHINGTON - Despite boasting of a 94 per cent approval rating among Republicans, Donald Trump finds himself behind Democratic 2020 challengers Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in a new poll conducted for NBC News/Wall Street Journal.

The president begins the week embroiled in a racism row after attempting to exploit divisions among the opposition by telling young progressive congresswomen like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began mass deportations raids on nine cities, Mr Trump also hit out at media coverage of vice president Mike Pence's visit to a border detention centre in McAllen, Texas, on Friday, insisting the facility in question was “well run and clean” despite evidence to the contrary.

Here are all the euphemisms the press have deployed in their efforts to avoid calling the president of the United States racist, dancing around the issue in their coverage by labelling his tweets everything from "anti-immigration rhetoric" to "racially-charged" rather than use the R word.(FA)