– The whole thing was offensive.
US President Donald Trump has retweeted a video in which a supporter calls “white power,” a racist slogan used by white high-rationists. The White House says Trump didn’t hear the racist slogan in the video he shared Sunday morning.
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The message was out for almost four hours before it disappeared from the president’s Twitter account after strong reactions in the US media.
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– Thanks to the great people at The Villages, Trump wrote as he shared the video on Sunday.
The Villages is a residential area for senior citizens in Florida where the scene was apparently filmed. Early in the clip, a man sitting in a golf cart with pro-Trump badges and flags calls out “white power.”
– Offensive
The video also shows people demonstrating against Trump and shouting, among other things, “Nazi” and “racist” to Trump’s supporters.
Tim Scott, the Republican’s only black senator, was quick to distance himself from the president’s tweet.
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“He shouldn’t have rebuked it and he should take it down,” Scott told CNN.
– The whole thing was offensive, he adds.
The White House has not yet responded to the AP’s request to comment on the matter.
Settlement with racism
In the United States, many are now taking up a national settlement of racism and police violence in the wake of the wave of protests that erupted in the spring after the killings of George Floyd and other black Americans.
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Trump has repeatedly been accused of contributing to divisions in minority issues. His presidency has apparently sparked groups that swear to white power and nationalism, some of which have embraced Trump, the news agency AP writes.
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