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Ted Lieu thanks Rolling Stone for calling Trump racist, advises other media outlets to take note.
Link to tweet
Thank you @RollingStone for accurately describing @realDonaldTrump. Other media organizations should take note. Not calling @POTUS a racist is simply inaccurate.
Rolling Stone tweet and article he was responding to:
Link to tweet
Racist Trump shares video of racist screaming "White Power" https://rol.st/2BO7eDI
That Rolling Stone article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-shares-video-of-racists-screaming-white-power-1021574/
On Sunday morning, the president of the United States once again showed his racist leanings by retweeting a video of one of his supporters chanting “white power.”
“Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!” Trump wrote in a quote tweet of the video.
The video showed pro and anti-Trump protesters from a community in Florida screaming obscenities at each other. Less than 10 seconds into the video, a man in a golf cart with “Trump 2020” signs could be heard loudly yelling “white power” at least twice.
Of course, the president’s defenders will likely rationalize the tweet by pretending that Trump didn’t watch the video and was simply promoting his supporters. But this incident is part of a racist pattern by the president that is too consistent to excuse away.
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“Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!” Trump wrote in a quote tweet of the video.
The video showed pro and anti-Trump protesters from a community in Florida screaming obscenities at each other. Less than 10 seconds into the video, a man in a golf cart with “Trump 2020” signs could be heard loudly yelling “white power” at least twice.
Of course, the president’s defenders will likely rationalize the tweet by pretending that Trump didn’t watch the video and was simply promoting his supporters. But this incident is part of a racist pattern by the president that is too consistent to excuse away.
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