Trump Fears the Minnesota Chaos Makes Him Look Weak

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The coronavirus pandemic stole from President Donald Trump his most prized political possession: a booming U.S. economy. Now racial unrest in Minnesota threatens to steal his second-most-prized one: an image of power and stability that he can project to supporters and adversaries alike.

Hours into a spate of destruction and arrests in Minneapolis after the police killing of an unarmed black man, Trump was already threatening to send in the National Guard and warning that “looters” in the city would be shot—employing a phrase popularized by a former Miami police chief famous for “tough-on-crime” policies that targeted citizens of color.

Trump walked back the latter statement a few hours later, saying he only meant that looters could end up shooting people, not that they should be shot. “I’ve heard that phrase for a long time. I don’t know where it came from or where it originated,” he declared later. “I wouldn't know a thing like that.”

But his immediate jump to a forceful and potentially deadly resolution to the unrest underscored what knowledgeable sources said is deep distress at events that, in Trump’s view, make him appear weak. He told reporters at the White House on Friday that he didn’t want Minneapolis to "descend further into lawless anarchy and chaos."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fears-minnesota-chaos-makes-010210352.html

Idiot is more concerned with how he looks rather than what is right.

[TomCADem]

1. Trump tells law enforcement: 'Don't be too nice' with suspects (2017)

Of course, Trump's equates doing a repeat of the Kent State massacre as being "strong." The truth of the matter is that Trump has been actively cheerleading police brutality over the past four years. Brutal police tactics does lead to a peaceful society. It generates unrest.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/29/trump-tells-law-enforcement-dont-too-nice-suspects/522220001/

Trump vowed the administration would continue to go after the gang and he appeared to encourage law enforcement to be more violent in handling suspects.

“When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, and I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’ “ Trump told the audience of law enforcement officers at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, N.Y.

“Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head, I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’ “

Advocates who work with immigrants and who promote human rights said the comments advocated divisiveness and hate.

[BGBD]

2. Trump is weak

Anyone who feels the need to "look strong" is usually very weak.


If you are strong, you don't have to go around trying to prove it.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. +1

[Skittles]

3. TRUMP IS A FUCKING SNOWFLAKE

it's all about him, ENOUGH ALREADY

[Shrike47]

4. Trump is an incredibly weak, frightened little man.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. And Shaquille O'Neal is worried his shoes make him look tall. NT

[Blue Owl]

7. Mr. Golfcart is weak AF

n/t

[fishwax]

8. he's right -- but that's because he is weak, profoundly so, and every crisis reveals his flaws

[budkin]

9. Way too late for that

Everything he does makes him look weak.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. "I've heard that phrase for a long time. I don't know where it came from or where it originated,"

Yeah. Sure, sparky.

I'm betting he remembers EXACTLY where he was when he heard Miami police Chief Walter Headley say that back in 1967.

I'll bet he knows the date, the time and the color of the curtains.