“Trump is not sharing any sense of empathy at all, because that is not who he is. You cannot ask him to magically turn it, on because it is not there,” said one former senior administration official and person of color.
“You probably always could have done better with the benefit of hindsight, but I just don’t get involved in that sort of Monday morning quarterbacking,” said Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, former Ohio Secretary of State and a longtime conservative leader and Trump supporter. “I look at what the playbook is going forward.”
At the same time, Trump, his top aides and his campaign have made statements or planned events that struck critics as tone-deaf and racially insensitive. Privately, some people of color in the administration groaned at these moves while trying to stay focused on their own jobs. The president’s approach to the moment — veering between expressing sympathy for George Floyd’s death, taking a hardline stance against protests and then trying to find policy solutions on the fly — does not surprise current and former officials.
The protests will die off, ass they always do, their history will be short lived.
He's had two black American roundtables in the past two days that have been very productive.
Sounds like POC should just step away from that dumpster fire. My self worth is higher than THAT paycheck
There is a racist in the White House can’t you all get it. Donald kill em all Trump doesn’t care about justice for anybody but himself. And his justice is only for him and his cronies.
Everyone who works for him is an absolute moron.
Congress still needs to stop the money flow to the top the middle class is DYING while many in congress, r the ones hording the $$ !!!! & fix the inheritance tax what a rip
I mean isn't this like the 30th instance of private reckoning among wh members in 3 and a half years?
Trump supporters will support him no matter what. This fake outrage is just that fake
I believe POTUS is concerned about rioting, and looting, not protesting. seems like there may be a easy to see distinction.
This is the same reporting that got him elected in 2016. Didn't work then, and won't work now. You still don't get it. And BTW, he did speak about Floyd's killing, more than once.
The answer to the questions raised by his staffers is so simple: he’s not a real leader. He’s an ersatz one.
Did I blink and miss any of Trump's handling of the protests? Shouting Law and Order is not handling anything.
The only thing Trump hasn’t failed at is fleecing the American people.
A great subject for speech WestPoint_USMA 👍🏻
Wow!
Saw a statistical report from FBI that 'black lives don't matter to Black Lives Matter'. Care to comment?
Agitate agitate agitate. Democrats have kept their agitation machine going non stop for 3 years. This has nothing to do with Trump.
Look at the media flipping the narrative away from thugs doing riots, arson, and criminal vandalism to blame it on the orange man.
“They were mystified”? You took a job with a racist. Then you act surprised that he’s a racist?
Boo hoo. I could not have less sympathy for these individuals.
Trump is pouring gas on fires he helped set all over America. This unrest and division in this country is what he wants.
KILLER!!!
He seems to have a horrible constipation problem in this pic. Maybe bloated & trying to hold in a belly full of gas from all the fast food?
If someone keeps telling you who they are... LISTEN! realDonaldTrump is a racial opportunist and has believed for decades that whites are the superior race. THAT IS WHITE SUPREMACY!
Biden after 5 lobotomies is still a better option than this idiot
He has failed at just about everything.
I've seen enough: Trump's fascist tendencies beat out his ability for reflection
If it took this for you to realize his staggering level of incompetence, then you are the problem. voteinnovember
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