Donald Trump has actually stated himself the “President of order” in a clear bid to take control of the story and the streets.
Criticised for stopping working to handle the scourge of coronavirus, of delegating too much of that duty to the states, of presiding over the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans, he now has an opportunity to return in charge.
Bunkered down during the early days of the street fights that broke out after African-American male George Floyd’s unfortunate death at the hands of a white law enforcement officer, the President’s emergence from the White House was a signal to his base.
He’s back.
Fan Alice Butler-Short, who heads up Women for Trump in Virginia simply a couple of miles from the White House, states she was “frightened” by the death of George Floyd.
She says the President’s walk to St John’s Church was assuring, and “really, really significant”.
” It was not a media event.”
‘ I will fight to protect you’
Others, naturally, saw the President’s expedition extremely in a different way, as the historic Lafayette Square, now trampled and graffitied, was forcibly cleared of protesters and press to allow for it.
His risk to send out in the military was also greeted, by many, with alarm.
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But those people are not who the remarks in the Rose Garden and the walk outside the White Home gates was targeted at.
” I will battle to secure you. I am your President of order and an ally of all serene protesters,” Trump said as he bought state guvs to send th