Trump: Black Lives Matter mural in NYC a 'symbol of hate' that would denigrate Fifth Avenue
Trump on Wednesday lashed out at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) for moving ahead with plans to paint "Black Lives Matter" along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, calling the mural a "symbol of hate."
Trump also criticized city officials for agreeing to shift roughly $1 billion from the police department as part of its budget for the coming year. He complained that the financial cuts, paired with plans to paint the mural along Fifth Avenue, were an affront to law enforcement.
"NYC is cutting Police $'s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury avenue," Trump tweeted.
The president tweeted that those actions will "further antagonize New York's Finest." He referenced a chant at a protest five years ago in which demonstrators shouted "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon." The chant has not been documented at recent protests over the May 25 police killing of George Floyd.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-black-lives-matter-mural-in-nyc-a-symbol-of-hate-that-would-denigrate-fifth-avenue/ar-BB16d8Kq?li=BBnb7Kz
Sounds like he's melting down
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But ya didn't hear them complain much when the Oregon standoff militia called for their 'patriots' to come kill the police.
Not much criticism from the right wing when Cliven Bundy's sniper was sighting in on LEO badges.
BULLSHIT (and note that he deliberately had to get half of the N-word in there 
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Here's what REALLY "denigrated" that luxury avenue: His piece of shit monument to his monumental ego, that destroyed for the ages one of Manhattan's art deco treasures.
And that’s where things get weird.
The buyer was none other than Donald Trump. In 1980, Trump demolished Warren & Westmore’s elegant Art Deco emporium to make way for his $100 million Trump Tower. In what became a sadly typical turn of events, Trump cut corners everywhere he could and bullied those who stood in his way. To pour the foundations, Trump enlisted S&A Concrete, a known mob front for Paul Castellano and “Fat Tony” Salerno. He paid 200 illegal Polish immigrants as little as $4 an hour to work 12-hour days, 7 days a week. The so-called “Polish Brigade” worked without benefits, hard hats, and sometimes even homes – during the 1980 transit strike, many were forced to sleep at the construction site. Then there were the lawsuits. He sued the city for a tax abatement on the property. He sued one contractor for “total incompetence” and threatened to sue a labor lawyer for $100 million.
And the promise to preserve the grillwork and reliefs? “On his orders, the demolition workers cut up the grillwork with acetylene torches,” wrote Harry Hurt III in The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. Crews “jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces.”
The Trump Organization disputed these claims through a spokesperson named John Baron. (Newspapers later discovered that “John Baron” was Trump himself.) When asked about the grillwork, Trump told the Times “We don’t know what happened to it.” As for the bas reliefs, he said “[t]he merit of these stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.” It was a strange claim to make for two reasons. First, the estimated $9,000 required to save the reliefs was a drop in the bucket compared the $100 million in construction costs. Second, if the reliefs lacked artistic or historic merit, why would the Met have requested them in the first place?
https://secretsofmanhattan.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/the-bonwit-teller-building-how-donald-trump-destroyed-an-art-deco-treasure/
