Trump spreads and deletes racist video
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American President Donald Trump doesn’t understand the beginning of the video properly
Those: AP / Patrick Semansky
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The American president shares a video showing one of his supporters roaring “White Power”. After criticism from his own ranks, he deleted the retweet again – four hours later. He doesn’t want to have heard the slogan.
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US-President Donald Trump temporarily spread a video on Twitter in Sunday, in which one of his supporters roars a slogan that is widely regarded as racist in the United States. The video shows protesters protesting against the president as supporters drive past in golf carts.
One of Trump’s supporters then shouts at the demonstrators: “White Power”. This slogan is used primarily by racist groups in the USA.
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The video that Trump shared with over 82 million followers had already been viewed around four million times three hours later. After Trump was promptly accused of supporting racism and criticizing even Trump’s Republicans, he deleted his retweet four hours later.
The video is a good two minutes long, but the slogan “White Power” occurs in the first ten seconds. Trump called his followers seen in the video “great people” and thanked them. After the deletion, the White House then said in a statement that Trump had “not heard” the slogan in question. He only saw the enthusiasm of his followers, said spokesman Judd Deere.
