Donald Trump Is Trying to Start a Race War
President Trump has not hidden who he is. He started his presidential campaign, after slowly descending his gilded escalator, with a no-holds barred racist attack on Mexicans. Then, he began his time as president by banning Muslims from entering the country. Later that summer, he called white supremacists who terrorized blacks and Jews in Charlottesville, Virginia, “very fine people.” And now, his seemingly only policy solution to coronavirus has been to label it the “Chinese virus” and hope the racism would scare it away.
Racism courses through Donald Trump’s blood and is one of the foundational principles of his presidency. Which is why, when faced with one of the greatest uprisings against police brutality this nation has seen, a movement led by black people around the country and joined by all other people of color and white people as well, his only policy solution is to start a race war. And unfortunately, American law gives him the authority to do so.
You’d have to be living under a rock to not know what’s going on right now, so just a short recap here. Last Monday, Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, an unarmed black man who had been accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill in a convenience store. In the days that followed, protests grew and spread, starting in Minneapolis and now taking place in seemingly every city in the country on a daily basis. The protests have been loud, angry, and forceful, demanding justice for Floyd, Breonna Taylor (killed in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier in May), and all other unarmed black people who have been murdered by police and other white vigilantes (such as Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin). As has been well-documented, police around the country have engaged in violent attacks against protesters, journalists, and citizen watchdogs.
Enter Trump. After initially being taken to the White House bunker Friday night when protests raged in Washington, D.C., and then turning off the White House lights on Sunday night in some weird attempt to hide the building, President Trump tried to project a different image on Monday evening. Right before curfew fell on the city, the president announced: “I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.” His goal is to use federal resources, including the military, “to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson, and to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your Second Amendment rights.” For D.C., he said that “I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property.”
Action soon followed. Federal police used tear gas to clear a path for the president to walk to a nearby church and pose with a bible, a photo op that “outraged” the Episcopal bishop of D.C. Then, later Monday night, military helicopters executed an aggressive low-level flyover in D.C. to scare away protesters.
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