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US President Donald Trump retweeted a video in which one of his supporters called out “White Power!” The video was shot during a rally held in support of the president in a nursing home in Florida.
The footage shows that there was a conflict between Trump’s supporters and opponents, during which both sides shouted insults and swearing at each other.
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In his Twitter post, he thanked the people living in the nursing home, where the incident occurred. “Radical leftists do nothing. Democrats lose in fall. Corrupt Joe [Байден] withdrawn to consumption. See you soon !!! “- he wrote. Soon the tweet was deleted.
In the video shared by Trump, his supporter in a golf car raises his fist and shouts “White power!” This slogan is associated in the USA with the widely condemned ideology of the superiority of the white race.
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Trump retweeted a video with a racist cry
The only dark-skinned Republican in the US Senate, Tim Scott, in an interview with CNN, called the video offensive and urged the president to delete his tweet.
“Obviously, he should not retweet this, and now he needs to remove it,” he said in an interview.
US Secretary of Health Alex Hazard said in an interview with CNN that he does not support any form of discrimination. “I have not seen that video or tweet, but it is obvious that neither the president, nor his administration, nor I myself will do anything that somehow supports the idea of superiority of whites or any kind of discrimination,” said Hazard.
It is unclear whether the president was aware of the racist cry in the video.
Not the first time
Trump has previously been accused of distributing or supporting racist content. In 2017, he retweeted three provocative videos published by the British extreme right, for which he was reproached by then British Prime Minister Teresa May.
In 2019, Trump fell under a flurry of criticism when he tweeted that the four women members of Congress Alexandria Okasio-Cortes, Rashida Tlaib, Ianne Pressli and Ilhan Omar should return to the countries they came from and help put things in order. ” in completely destroyed and crime-infected places. ” At the same time, three of them were born in the United States, and all four are citizens of the United States.
In response to the protests that swept around the world over the death of George Floyd, Trump tweeted that when looting begins, shooting also begins. This phrase was used in 1967 by Miami Police Chief Walter Hadley at the height of the civil rights movement.
After this publication of trump, Twitter decided to hide his tweet, explaining this as a violation of the rules for using the platform with regard to the glorification of violence.
Trump was also accused of racism due to the repeated use of the word “kung-flu” (flu in English means flu) to describe the coronavirus. The White House claims that this is not worth any racist overtones.
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