Trump's campaign reportedly knew the significance of the Juneteenth Tulsa rally date

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

expected less blowback

President Trump's re-election campaign was expecting some raised eyebrows after scheduling Trump's first campaign rally in months on June 19 — Juneteenth — in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a state Trump is expected to win easily, two campaign officials tell The Associated Press.

"But the campaign was caught off guard by the intensity" of the blowback, AP reports, especially when people made a connection between the date and the host city, site of one of the worst white massacres of black Americans in U.S. history, at a period where Trump is defending Confederate symbols and attacking protests demanding an end to police killing and terrorizing of black people.

In 1921, an organized white mob in Tulsa ravaged the city's affluent and flourishing black community. When the massacre was over, up to 300 black people were dead and the Greenwood area — called Black Wall Street — had been looted and burned to the ground. Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery, marking the day two years after the Emancipation Proclamation when Union soldiers told black slaves in Galveston, Texas, they were no longer someone else's property.

Local and national black leaders have slammed Trump's rally and urged him to change the date, and "some Republicans and Trump allies were also upset after realizing the president's team had scheduled his first campaign rally since coronavirus outbreak for Juneteenth in Tulsa," The Washington Post reports. Campaign officials told AP they picked Tulsa because it was expedient and "they could all but guarantee a big crowd despite coronavirus concerns."

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[Docreed2003]

1. Translation, they knew and didn't give a crap who was upset about it

Screw every one of this racist bastards

[shanti]

3. You could take it a step further

They knew and purposely scheduled it on that day and in that city. The cruelty is always the point with Chump.

[Docreed2003]

4. Oh I fully believe in was intentional

I have no doubt Stephen Miller knew exactly what they were doing and helped orchestrate the whole thing.

[Walleye]

11. Correct!

Desperate and stupid. They’re scared

[Thomas Hurt]

2. they picked it because it is red meat for the alt right bigots.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. No question, a most obvious conclusion is that Trump and his campaign are totally

oblivious and un-moored from anywhere close to where the vast majority of Americans stand.

Not only is this stupid gaslighting effect obvious and outrageous, but now one of his core social institutions -NASCAR - has undercut his pandering to traitor unity by banning the flag of surrender at their races.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I think they think this is their Reichstag fire...

Not only did they know exactly what they were doing, but this is exquisite bait for activists to mass protest and their own instigators start smashing windows and heads.

Just what they need to call in the troops.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. I agree.

I really hope protestors stay away from there, although some alt-righters might show up to start something. Moderates and lefties should stay away. A big protest and riot is exactly what they want.

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. Of course they did.

Stephen Miller is a connoisseur of racism. He studies it.

There's no chance in hell Santa Monica Goebbels didn't intentionally select that location and that specific date.

[sellitman]

8. More ignorant people in OK than anywheres else in the US

I know because i worked for a company from there.

Reddest State in the Country.

[gratuitous]

9. Not to diss anyone who wasn't sure, but of course they knew

In the same way these atrocities are remembered by the surviving victims and their descendants, racist fucks like Trump and Bannon and Miller keep a calendar of the high holy days of bigotry and intolerance. Commemorative days when they can celebrate their murderous past and not so subtly remind their victims that they remember, too. And in their remembrance, you can see their hands twitch, reaching for the noose or the gun or the torch their ideological forbears used to such lethal effect.

[JDC]

12. They planned. Period.

To suggest that they didn't expect the blowback softens their motives. Their motives are clear. Racism and white supremacy.

[underpants]

13. I don't think they knew about either

I think I learned about Tulsa here on DU maybe 10 years ago. I’d never heard of it.

I heard of Juneteenth due to a former coworker.

I don’t think they knew. Not an excuse I just don’t think you’re talking about a starting staff - the WH staff alone is third team at best.

[SamKnause]

14. It was intentional.

The EVIL fucks knew and wanted to escalate the situation.

They are all white supremacists.

Fuck Trump, fuck his entire administration, and fuck his cult.

[EmeraldCoaster]

15. A Resistance Rally on a tRump Golf course!

that's all!