He abdicates responsibility
He says nothing (as far as I read) about the real issue of police brutality against African-Americans that caused the protest
He blames the governors
His law and order pitch sounds like Nixon which is not a compliment
Trump should just shut up
Trump’s words to America’s Governor’s are not the words of an American President. They are the words of a thug and autocrat who despises our countries most sacred ideas and ideals. Trump is the author of unprecedented American weakness. Chaos, disease, death and economic collapse
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 1, 2020
President Trump, who has pardoned a number of his political allies, suggests that those protesting racial injustice in America get put in jail for 10 years. https://t.co/EsmEfOa5el
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 1, 2020
Trump is quick to rule out that white supremacist groups have played any role in the violent demonstrations https://t.co/oSSFsWTvR5
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 1, 2020
Here is transcript of a testy exchange between the president and @GovPritzker of Illinois, per person on call. pic.twitter.com/fNYW8BXkMs
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) June 1, 2020
A sign of how tense this moment is.@GovJanetMills tells the sitting president his trip to Maine this week may “cause security problems for our state”
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) June 1, 2020
Trump fires back that he expects "a tremendous crowd of people showing up”
"They like their president," Trump says of Mainers
The president who has spent the last few weeks condemning the overreach of FISA wants government to track people arrested during the protests. https://t.co/wCSKkYiOBT
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2020
Gov Pritzker confronting Trump on call per source: “I have been extraordinarily concerned with the rhetoric coming out of the WH making it worse. People are feeling real pain out there. We have to have national leadership in calling for calm.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 1, 2020
In addition to Tiananmen Square, Trump comments to governors recall these remarks suggesting cops get rougher on detainees during a Long Island speech in 2017 https://t.co/SzZIoxxQXK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2020
Telling that the president feels compelled, yet again, to defend the honor of white supremacists. https://t.co/EDkysPof4T
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) June 1, 2020
As with COVID, potus seems at the moment to be trying outsource response to the unrest to governors. https://t.co/sQlDClBzCd
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2020
Here's the audio of that remarkable call where Trump lashes out at governors and says they need to crack down on protesters. pic.twitter.com/ANSsniYItN
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 1, 2020
Sad! 