United States President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a video of one of his supporters yelling “white power,” after the tweet was widel...
United States President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a video of one of his supporters yelling “white power,” after the tweet was widely criticised as being racist and insensitive, AFP reported. The move came at a time when America is roiled with protests against racial inequality and police brutality after the murder of George Floyd, an African-American who died as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
The two-minute video clip showed profane exchanges as anti-Trump protesters and his supporters clashed at The Villages, a retirement community in Florida. In the video, a white man riding in a golf cart bearing “Trump 2020” and “America First” signs, is seen being heckled by a roadside protester chanting “racist.” During the argument, the man in the golf cart pumps his fist in the air and says “white power!” twice.
The president retweeted the video, thanking “the great people of The Villages”. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall,” he added. However, the tweet was deleted a few hours later, with the White House issuing a statement claiming Trump had not heard the phrase “white power”, which is considered synonymous with a call for white supremacism.
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