He also called the finding of a noose at a NASCAR track a ‘hoax’….
Donald Trump IS continuing to run the most racist Presidential campaign in modern times…
Things are getting so bad with this that South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is opposed to Trump’s view on this…
Red state Republican lawmakers are being put in the spotlight on this as polls show an increasing number of American’s have become sympathetic to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests against overt racial injustices….
President Trump mounted an explicit defense of the Confederate flag on Monday, suggesting that NASCAR had made a mistake in banning it from its auto racing events, while falsely accusing a top Black driver, Darrell WallaceJr., of perpetrating a hoax involving a noose found in his garage.
Mr. Trump’s reference to the Confederate flag, and its role in a sport whose mostly white fans Mr. Trump remains popular with, was the latest remark by the president as he tries to rally his culturally conservative base behind his struggling re-election effort.
While NASCAR and other organizations have moved to retire symbols of the Confederacy, and lawmakers in Mississippi voted to bring down the state flag featuring the Confederate emblem, Mr. Trump has increasingly used racist language and references to portray himself as a protector of the history of the American South. He has called the phrase “Black Lives Matter” a “symbol of hate,” and he has repeatedly tried to depict pockets of violence during protests against entrenched racism as representative of the protest movement as a whole.
Mr. Trump delivered official speeches over the weekend that also emphasized defending American heritage, though he avoided explicit references to totems of the Confederacy.
“Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!” Mr. Trump posted on Twitter on Monday.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina and an informal adviser to the president, said Monday that he disagreed with Mr. Trump’s tweet.
“They’re trying to grow the sport,” Mr. Graham said, according to the CNN reporter Manu Raju, referring to NASCAR’s ban on confederate flags, which it announced last month. “And I’ve lived in South Carolina all my life and if you’re in business, the Confederate flag is not a good way to grow your business.”….
Note…
“Two individuals close to the president told the Daily Beast last week that they believe devoting so much time and energy to defending lifeless statues—a kick that started with sticking up for ones honoring racist dead Confederates—will likely fail to help rejuvenate his sagging 2020 campaign and close the wide polling deficits that former Vice President Biden has opened up.”
“Both sources independently said they intended to gently implore Trump to take a different approach. One of the sources said they had already told Trump in recent days that making statue fetishization a cornerstone of the re-election pitch amounted to a ‘distraction’ that wouldn’t help move the necessary votes into the president’s column by the election in November.”
Said one: “The question now is: Is the statue shit going to work?”….
image…Cheriss May for The New York Times
I see that even fans of Trump are shaking their heads at this Tweet this morning.
It’s doubtful he even knows the story. There is nothing at all to suggest that Bubba Wallace has anything to apologize for. We all should be grateful that that this turned out not to be what it could have been.
Trump is probably confused with the Jussie Smollett story or listening to whatever someone might have put in his head.
The noose was there since October it’s reported….
WTF it was there for so long is another story….
People who SHOULD apologize
Jussie Smollett
Al Sharpton (for many things)
Donald Trump (specifically to the Central Park Five)
Kayleigh at the White House really struggled with this one today.
Are these Republicans “concerned” about it?
You’ll have to check your Facebook timeline I guess.
Huh?
CG says a Yuge popular vote = a Yuge EC vote for Biden…