President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white supremacists. He later deleted the tweet and the White House said the president had not heard “the one statement” on the video.
The video appeared to have been taken at the Villages, a Florida retirement community, and showed dueling demonstrations between Trump supporters and opponents. “Thank you to the great people of the Villages,” Trump tweeted. Moments into the video clip he shared, a man driving a golf cart displaying pro-Trump signs and flags shouts “white power.” The video also shows anti-Trump protesters shouting “Nazi,” “racist,” and profanities at the Trump backers.
“There’s no question” that Trump should not have retweeted the video and “he should just take it down,” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told CNN’s “State of the Union.” Scott is the only Black Republican in the Senate.Shortly afterward, Trump deleted the tweet that shared the video. White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement that “President Trump is a big fan of The Villages. He did not hear the one statement made on the video.
The president’s decision to highlight a video featuring a racist slogan comes amid a national reckoning over race following the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans. Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, died after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes.
I bet you Melania deleted it...
Can you all just stop pretending that the Pro Trump golf cart parade video President Trump tweeted was supportive of 'white power'? It's clear to anyone being intellectually honest and mature that the man who fist pumped and said it was merely mocking hecklers. Good grief 🤦♂️
latime fakenewslatimes is about as divisive as it comes when it relates to the US People. Journalism no longer exists realjournalismisdead
maggieNYT He tweets it to throw a bone to racist element of his base, then deletes it so he can claim he’s not racist.
How much more are black people expected to tolerate, can you imagine the highest office in the land supporting an evil ideology - the same forces who has vowed to protect me are the same forces who’s agenda it seems is to destroy me
Really, for sure!!!
The Whole World Right Now.....
Still waiting for the Democrats to address “you ain’t black”, the Democrats kneeling with slave clothes, and the high numbers of deaths in Chicago. Ah...yeah...thought so. Doesn’t fit the narrative.
maggieNYT Cats out of the bag, horse has left the barn.
White isn’t ok?
One & Done!!!
The man was responding sarcastically to someone profiling him as a racist.
maggieNYT He posted that horrible video... he wanted to tweet it! He is a bad man!
He's taunting, by any other name.
Fake news gonna fake news
That stupid hot pink mofo!
Feelin supreme, might delete later
maggieNYT Not another fun day for Trump- he’s having a great time.
maggieNYT Isn't it illegal to destroy a presidential record?
Baby hands should be banned from Twitter. WhitePowerVideo WorstPresidentEver HateSpeech Twitter
Too Late Trump.
Slime bag.
Yeah Deletes it 3 hours later...put that in the title.........,
SiaKordestani 'He did not hear that one statement' WH spokesperson says after Trump deletes controversial 'White power' Tweet If that has never happened to you too, I think you might just be lying.
Thought the president wasn’t allowed to delete tweets, jack twitter? How about a 24 hour suspension?
LA Times trying to be Washington Post lite.
That’s because he reads at a 3rd grade level
maggieNYT I thought he wasn’t supposed to delete things. Wasn’t that a Presidential Records Act thing?
maggieNYT Let’s face it, he’s been very blunt about his sympathetic political position toward this.
He is a racist of non description.
And, once again, given the atmosphere in the country, it’s not too much to watch the whole video he’s retweeting before sending it. So either he’s a racist for sending it, or a racist for not being sensitive to the issue.
maggieNYT Very fine people.
How long until the WHITE HOUSE is renamed
costareports
maggieNYT NOT FIT TO LEAD A NATION
PressSec I'm interested to see how you're gonna spin this into a positive. I'm sure it will somehow all be the Dems, Obama's, or Biden's fault.
FAKE NEWS The man in the golf cart was trolling the protester yelling at him “where’s your white hood?” 🤣 I would’ve screwed with him the same way being a Latino 😆 TRUMP 2020 MINORITIES FOR AMERICA
maggieNYT It’s in the hands. Trump is a master at subliminal messaging.
American Congress estimates the amount of TAX EVASION in USA at $ 6 ooo BILLION /year Donald Trump wants recover PUBLIC MONEY STOLEN by tax evasion to finance NEW product & organizational MODELS : economic & pure democracy-spatial planning-education-health... RETHINK EVERYTHING
The guy said it sarcastically to a protestor asking where his white hood was. Stop lying. Your reputation doesn't come back when Trump leaves.
maggieNYT Trump is dumb as a stump.
This is absolutely appalling.
Ok
Nit pic yourselves into deranged neurosis ?
Judd Deere admits it was all about Trump & he really doesn’t care about what else was said. He was too busy ogling over the tRump supporters
All those old farts yelling at each other! I hope medical staff was close by!
John Bolton had an interesting take, saying he couldn’t tell if Trump was racist or just oblivious to anything beyond seeing the Trump sign that was in the window of the front golf cart. What a numb nut.
maggieNYT It’s frightening first of all how stupid he is and how racist he is! If he wins again this nation is in trouble.
what made him tweet this ? It should be an interesting answer . Like ,”it wasn’t me” .
There doesn’t seem to be a problem when a black person yells Black Power. What’s the difference?
When is this pile of garbage going away?! Most divisive person in American history
twowisegals
maggieNYT CHANT? Jesus, journalism is fuckn DEAD!
It's still on my feed
At the next press briefing / 30 minute stream of consciousness rambling at Marine 1, reporters should ask the President if he “believes white people r superior to other races”. Imagine the sludge that will belch from his literal pie hole. He can’t resist & will fast track his end
Sarcasm apparently died along with actual journalism.
He's a disgrace to this nation.
Let’s hope this had something to do with it.
maggieNYT Deletes but doesn’t condemn it.
It was bunch of boomers yelling black/white power nonsense at each other, from their golf carts in a FL retirement community. Calm down.
DrrtyBeavr DoubleAgentInOval
I mean...
Like when you post something and then listen to it and then realize you don’t want something you just now saw to represent you so you delete it? You mean like that? trashnewsmedia
maggieNYT I did not hear 'nazi' or 'racist'. They may have been said, but it was pretty noisy and difficult to make out. 'White power' was clearly audible, unmissable. Don't 'both sides' this.
Trumpstupidity of the day, and the real moron that he is...
maggieNYT Hey did you hear about this whole Russian bounty thing? Are we really falling for the shiny object thing again? Fuck.
maggieNYT Correction, trump’s advisors deleted it, he was golfing and probably doesn’t even know it’s been taken down
maggieNYT Yep, he’s a racist. Got caught and had to delete. Not buying his story
costareports 'Damn, got to listen more closely before retweeting!' - Inside Donald Trump's mind
He must be removed now. Traitor.
maggieNYT He can’t delete his attitude. Only we can, in November.
maggieNYT realDonaldTrump To late BITCH!!
At this point the US Military should reframe from being called to do Trump and his RacistInChief agenda against American Citizens. StandDown
The day of the Tulsa rally Eric briefly posted something about QAnon on Instagram but then deleted it. This is their method.
maggieNYT Trump is sloppy enough to have overlooked the white supremacy part of the video. He did delete it. However you don't need to include this video to conclude he is racist.
Just a distraction from the fact that he didn’t care about Russia putting bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan. Try to stay focused on the story and don’t let him distract you.
WTF
maggieNYT anyone buy that this convenient temporary distraction that sucked up plenty of time on the Sunday talk shows was some sort of accident?
costareports And you consider it newsworthy that he’s a racist?
maggieNYT realDonaldTrump didn’t delete this tweet, someone else did. Trump was playing golf with fellow racist LindseyGrahamSC .
maggieNYT Well , we know POTUS won’t get hired as a Copy Editor when he leaves office.
maggieNYT On of his minions probably deleted it. He probably loved it! WorstPresidentInHistory
🖕💀
Lol
maggieNYT TRE45ON lock him up
maggieNYT Can’t put the toothpaste back in tube Orange Infant
maggieNYT Trump’s ineptitude is bottomless.
maggieNYT It was up for several hours and now has been retweeted around the world. And he is not a racist?
Oh cmon. Joe Biden says “You ain’t Black, if you don’t vote for him” but where’s the LA Times Tweet!!! Lmao The hypocrisy is quite apparent. how BLM protest chant “cops fry like bacon”/“Death to cops” but the protests are “Mostly” peaceful. “Democracy dies in Darkness” wake up
Ok so where is it? You can’t tell me someone didn’t get it? Could this be false news?
maggieNYT Boy I can’t WAIT FOR NOVEMBER to see all the haters heads explode!! A-GAIN!!! 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🇺🇸💪
This is old news already
Let's not forget, the Left has insisted on hate crime charges for people who put up a flyer that said 'it's ok to be white.'
maggieNYT It's still up
costareports So the difference between BLM, antifa and White power?
maggieNYT Well, he got his dog whistle out!
Because none of us have ever made a mistake.
And it’s not like the chant was all the way at the end, and he just didn’t watch the whole video. It was right at the beginning and hard to miss! The guy shouted it twice!
He’s desperate. Shoring up his base.
maggieNYT If you think he didn’t do this intentionally, I have some valuable Trump Casino stock to sell to you. Also, there’s a Nigerian prince looking for you.
Keep stoking the fire. 😂🤣😂
Vote Hate Out !
costareports ... 19 hours later
ejacqui Another example of people falling for misinformation from fake news. The point of the tweet wasn’t about “white power.” It was a tweet about protests and someone was heard saying “white power” in the attached video. When that was noticed it was taken down.
Ok, he's unhinged. Seriously out of his mind.
costareports Severe Acutely Narcissist Sociopath - TRUMP SANSTRUMP is the goal in nov. GOTV get out the vote
maggieNYT
If anyone has it, keep posting it so we can rt it. Exposes him even further
maggieNYT Are we surprised? To maga crew who thinks all of the evidence against Trump is fake... Why doesn’t Hillary get benefit of doubt? Trump was a conman long before he was a politician. gop tried to paint HillaryClinton as a murderer. Trump actually is.
costareports Racist. No debate. Never has been.
costareports It does not matter if Trump, or Stephen Miller, or other sycophants posted the tweet. All are culpable who enable Trump.
If you think that’s racist. Check out what Sleepy Joe Biden did in 1994. Also what he said in ‘77 about integration of society.. 'Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high
maggieNYT Why he is spoiling his own chances of winning? His vote base is anyway guaranteed to vote him. So why these “unfavourable” acts?
Really saying the quiet part quite loudly lately.
maggieNYT Is that more important than bounties on American soldiers?
costareports Twitter never forgets
idkbtdt Now do BLM and Antifa. Or Democrats.
maggieNYT Time we delete this seditous pos.
costareports ...hours later.
Pretty sure he’ll just claim it was a joke. :(
costareports
costareports Disgraceful
Anyone have the deleted tweet?
Fake news. The guy who yelled it was a Democrat who was mocking the other group that was protesting.
maggieNYT It wasn’t a chant..but he can delete it...but it is still out there and we saw it...he is a racist and we already knew it
And deplorables think Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” comment was wrong... Well folks, he was right all along
maggieNYT I find it hard to believe that he deleted it... 'Trump retweets racist scum, an apologist with access to his account deletes it lest it damage his ratings, and Trump sulks.' Fixed.
He knows exactly what he was doing. If America allows this man to be re-elected will be the end of us all.
there should be a log of all the tweets and retweets by trump of things containing white power, supremacist, or other white nationalist messaging or by folks who approve of that messaging. Its a LONG LIST
maggieNYT But Biden is flawed ... and Trump advisors want him to focus and change messaging ... this is on the media to report accurately and honestly. Don’t both side something that is catastrophically destructive and dangerous. Report the truth. Forgot about a binary story.
maggieNYT HE didn’t delete it. A staffer did. That tubby goon was golfing when it was taken down.
maggieNYT Do you hear that? It’s the sound of a dog whistle from the president...
maggieNYT Like everything else. Locks the barn door after the horse gets out. Pathetic, disgusting.
maggieNYT I do not think that he personally deleted it. Someone did it for him ...
TassajaraRd Ixnay on the Itewhay Owerpay.
maggieNYT Ya’ll realize this is to distract from the russia bounty story right?
You can’t cover up stupid.
We all KNOW he is a racist, is promoting it, and is using this as a DISTRACTION! Stop it, get back to the fact our military have bounties on their heads and this f×*ker did nothing about it! TRE45ON UnfitForOffice
maggieNYT Has the media mentioned Joe Biden’s use of the word “n*gger” yet?
maggieNYT Too late, we all saw it. This motherfucker has no soul.
maggieNYT He was actually saying 'white POWDER'...not 'White power.' Florida is well known for its pure cocaine. He was simply saying please give me some more cocaine. See how innocent the statement was and how it was easily misunderstood. whitepower whitepowder
maggieNYT He should have left it up. It's how he feels.
We can be sure that if some Democrat posts a video of a BLM protest and misses someone yelling, 'kill all cops,' or 'kill all white people, then deletes it, the LAT's won't cover it.
It wasn't a chant, but in a related story, journalism is still dead.
It's that sort of cuckery that will ultimately cause Trump to lose the election this time around.
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