The video in question had been shot in The Villages, a retired community in Florida where the American president had recently been visiting. “Thanks to the fantastic people of The Villages,” tweets Trump. And shares. A man driving a golf cart raises his fist, shouts “Long live Trump” and “Power to whites”. The video also shows anti-Trump demonstrators shouting “Nazi” and “racist” against supporters of the president.
A few hours, then the storm, and the tweet canceled. “The president hadn’t seen it all,” said the White House. “He hadn’t heard the statements about the power of the whites, what he had seen was the huge enthusiasm of his many supporters,” said the spokesman Judd Deere.
The first to ask for “immediate” removal of the tweet had been Tim Scott, the only African American republican senator, calling him “offensive” and “unjustifiable”.
Then it came Joe Biden. “We are in the midst of a battle to choose the soul of this country and President Trump has chosen which side to be on,” commented the former vice president and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the White House. “The same thing he did after Charlottesville,” he added, recalling the protester killed by a car during a pacifist and anti-fascist procession in 2017.
The Florida Democratic Party accused Trump of thanking the “white supremacists” for their support and urged citizens to deny him support for the November elections.
Despite the anti-racist protests that have shaken the United States since late May George Floydeven the vice president Mike Pence today he refused several times to say the phrase “Black Lives Matter”, “Black lives matter”, the movement’s slogan.
During the program Face the Nation of CbsInstead, Pence said: “I really believe that all lives count and this is where the heart of the American people is located”. Pence added to consider the movement Black Lives Matter a “political program of the radical left” that only wants to cut the funds for the police departments and demolish the monuments.
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