Sunday, President Donald Trump shared on his Twitter account a very singular video, showing a violent verbal confrontation between several of his supporters and his opponents, before a man screams “white power”, the rallying cry of the supremacists whites.
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Apparently filmed in a private retirement home in Florida, we first see a man, driving a golf cart adorned with “Trump 2020” and “America First” signs, being apostrophed by demonstrators who call him “racist”. The man then decides to answer, raised his fist: “White power, that’s it, white power”.
Donald Trump relayed the video with the message “Thank you to the super inhabitants of the Villages”, named after this community for those over 55 years of age, which hosts 115,000 inhabitants in North Florida. A few hours later, as the controversy began to mount in the American media, the Republican billionaire deleted his retweet.
An “indefensible” action
“President Trump is a big fan of the Villages. He did not hear the message in this video. What he saw was incredible enthusiasm from his supporters, “said White House spokesman Judd Deere. Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, called the video “insulting” in the morning and asked the president to delete it.
A gesture on the part of Donald Trump which remains “indefensible”, for the president of the democratic party Tom Perez. “The president tries to play the card of ignorance, but the consistency of his actions – from Charlottesville to Lafayette Square – cover the emptiness of his words,” he denounced.
Donald Trump is accused by his democratic opponents of proximity to the white supremacists, who largely supported him in 2016. After violent clashes between anti-racist and neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, a small town in Virginia, in August 2017, the American president had created controversy, even in his own camp, when he said he saw good people “on both sides”.
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For a month, while the United States has been engaged in a rereading of its racist past, Donald Trump has strongly criticized the demonstrators who tried to unbolt statues of Confederate or slavery figures, in particular in Lafayette Square, near the House -White.
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