https://time.com/5846449/trump-church-protests/
As Trump began to speak in the Rose Garden, tear gas canisters could
be heard being launched into the crowd across the park, and the sounds
of bangs and screams carried over the treetops and punctuated his
remarks. Trump began with three sentences about Floyd, the 46-year-old black man who died in Minneapolis
on May 25 after a white police officer kept his knee on his neck for
eight minutes and 46 seconds. “All Americans were rightly sickened and
revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd,” Trump said, adding that
his Administration “is fully committed that for George and his family
justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.”
For the rest of Trump’s six minute and forty-two second speech,
the President did not mention or commit to solve the main grievance of
the protestors being noisily gassed outside: the frequency of killings
of unarmed black men and women by police officers across the country.
Instead, he pivoted to his central point of the night projecting himself
as the defender of order. “We cannot allow the righteous cries of
peaceful protestors to be drowned out by an angry mob,” he said. “I will
fight to protect you. I am your president of law and order and an ally
of all peaceful protestors.”
See, this proves my point. He leads with the crime. He demands justice for the crime. Oh but then he goes on and talks about something else. How dare he? Don't you see how stupidly partisan this has become? When they can't criticize him for not speaking about it, then it's criticizing him for not speaking about it enough.
ReplyDeleteare you really so naive!
ReplyDeleteIt's not being naive. Those who love him will clap no matter how stupid he sounds. Those who hate him will twist anything good he does into something dark.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. They shout that he should say something about the crime so he does and their response? No, no, he didn't say enough.