White House is considering a Trump speech to the nation on race and unity

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN


By Kristen Holmes and Sarah Westwood, CNN

Updated 8:40 PM ET, Sun June 7, 2020

After a weekend of massive peaceful protests around the country, White House officials are currently deliberating a plan for President Donald Trump to address the nation this week on issues related to race and national unity, as Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson hinted in an interview with CNN on Sunday and a senior administration official said was under serious consideration.

Many allies of the President spent the last week distraught as they watched Trump fumble his response to the police killing of George Floyd, only to follow his perceived silence on the resulting racial tensions with a federal law enforcement crackdown on the protesters near his fortified doorstep.

Aides and allies were not comforted by the backlash over his decision to have federal officers aggressively clear Lafayette Park in front of the White House to facilitate a widely-panned attempt at a photo-op in front of St. John's Church. And the rest of the week continued on a downward spiral, as protests across the country grew and Trump faced an onslaught of well-known conservatives, generals and former Trump administration officials who excoriated his response and called for new leadership come November.

Carson suggested during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" that the President this week would further address Floyd's killing and the tensions it exposed.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/politics/trump-race-nationwide-speech/index.html

[SouthernCal_Dem]

1. Trump giving a speech on race and national unity?

[Brainfodder]

2. Please proceed!

[TreadSoftly]

3. Trump speech generator

so you don't have to listen:


People always ask me about unity, It's fantastic. Let me tell you about unity. I do very well with unity. I love unity. No one loves unity more than me, BELIEVE ME. unity loves me. We're going to have so many unity you are going to get sick of unity. The unity just got 10 feet higher. I have the best unity.


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[Nevilledog]

5. Ha!

[John Fante]

14. LMAO

[SheltieLover]

4. What could go wrong?

[Blue Owl]

6. Reflections of a psychopathic narcissist

Let the healing begin...

[bamagal62]

7. I wish I knew how to

Add the get the popcorn icon. This is definitely popcorn worthy.

[drray23]

8. that should go well... nt.

[Jamastiene]

9. There are numerous reasons that is a bad idea.

Most of them are Trump and his nasty violence inciting tweets and the nasty crap he has done and said. Most of the reasons are Trump. Period.

It's a bad idea. I need to know which day so I can avoid all the fawning all over him afterward by way too many gullible people.

[moonscape]

10. Also bad because there are discussions going

on that finally are not about him. We need him down in his bunker downing his cokes and burgers, staying away.

[Jamastiene]

13. He is just going to run his mouth about how great he thinks he is.

We already hear that from his Twitter drivel. No speech someone can write for him will ever come off as genuine and he doesn't have the empathy to pull it off. He is incapable. It is why you never hear him show any concern for anyone. Over one hundred thousand people are dead and he has yet to offer anything more than a passing comment and even that clearly wasn't genuine. He cannot even pretend he has empathy and be very convincing, but there are so many gullible people in this country.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. It's telling that the WH TrumpHumpers have to "deliberate" this.

In the olden days, when we had a sane president, there wouldn't be any "deliberation" -- the president would just do it, as a matter of course. It was one of the things a president does when necessary.

Now, they have to weigh "can he do any good?" with "how much damage will he do?" with "how much can we make off this?"

[procon]

12. Sounds like fresh material for a new SNL skit. LOL. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Has anyone checked "The Onion" for a preview?

[kentuck]

16. He's sharpening his pencil as you speak...

He wants his speech to be thoughtful and historic.

[Gothmog]

17. Please make this speech

[tanyev]

18. Oh, were they distraught because the guy they support behaved in an entirely predictable manner?

They were 'distraught' because everyone else reacted with disgust and horror.