As Trump rages, Republicans plead for calm

[babylonsister]

He obviously wasn't listening.


As Trump rages, Republicans plead for calm
GOP senators urged the president to ease tensions — not inflame them.
By BURGESS EVERETT, MARIANNE LEVINE and ANDREW DESIDERIO
06/01/2020 07:29 PM EDT


President Donald Trump spent Monday further fanning the flames of confrontation between protesters and police. And some Republicans are urging the president to extinguish them.

Against a backdrop of police officers with riot gear ringing the Capitol as well as protesters chanting “I can’t breathe” and “hands up don’t shoot,” Senate Republicans called for a far gentler touch than the president has displayed so far.

Some said they’d like to hear him make a national address, a move Trump had avoided for days despite deepening nationwide angst. Others implored him to empathize with those outraged over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans at the hands of police, even as he acted to curb riots and looting in big cities.

“We are obviously in a divisive situation right now that’s escalating, and I think he needs to make more unifying comments,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

“The country is looking for healing and calm. And I think the president needs to project that in his tone. He masters that sometimes,” said Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.). “That’s the tone he needs to strike right now.”

Their pleadings followed a day’s worth of presidential grievances and inflammatory rhetoric that caused many in his party to fret once against about Trump’s divisive form of politics. But there was also an acknowledgment by some Republicans that conciliation is just not in Trump’s repertoire, and many have grown tired of trying to get Trump to calibrate his inflammatory rhetoric.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/01/republican-senate-trump-protest-294900

[tanyev]

1. Why on earth do they think he's capable of unifying or healing and calm???

Have they listened to anything he’s said in the last few years?

[hatrack]

2. Gosh, they sound so . . . . concerned . . . .

Fuck Thune, fuck Capito, fuck every GOP elected official at every level.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. You made this bed repugs, now you have to sleep in it

Fuck you all 🖕🖕🖕

[alwaysinasnit]

4. The Repukes are singing a different song now that the pitchforks are visible.

[Leith]

5. Hey! Senate rethugs!

You had your chance to stop this and you fucked up royal.

The road we're on? You built that.

[kacekwl]

6. Boy talk about weak.

Such a strong message

[tavernier]

7. Crazy as a shit house rat.