WASHINGTON– After decades of cultivating racists, President Donald Trump continued his struggles trying to handle the worst crisis in race relations in decades as he remained– beyond a brief, tear-gas-enforced photo opportunity Monday at a harmed church– bunkered in the White House.
“You have to control or you’ll look like a bunch of jerks.
Monday night, Trump finally attended to the circumstance with 7 minutes of remarks from the Rose Garden– of which exactly 17 seconds spoke of George Floyd, the Black guy whose killing by a white policeman in Minneapolis has triggered the unrest throughout the country.
The rest of the speech featured guarantees to use “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers” to end the across the country demonstrations. “I am your president of law and order,” he said, reading from teleprompters.
Afterward, he walked across Lafayette Park– which law enforcement had actually cleared of peaceful protesters by using aggressive strategies and tear gas– for a picture chance in which he held up a Bible for the video cameras, although it sought a 7 p.m. curfew had actually started.
That curfew was imposed after 3 straight nights of presentations simply beyond the fence surrounding the White Home complex, with enormous crowds of protesters intermixed with violent agitators while authorities reacted with sometimes violent crowd control actions. White House personnel reacted Sunday evening by shutting down the lights that typically keep the main residence brightened during the night.
If ever the country required the occupant of that structure to shed light, and not heat, it is now,” said David Axelrod, a former leading aide to Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama.
The White Home protected Trump’s handling of the protests, arguing that he had currently dealt with the topic