President Donald Trump lashed out at the Black Lives Matters movement in twin tweets Thursday, accusing one of its members of treason and lamenting alleged plans for a new mural in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan that honors the cause.
Trump, who has said he supports peaceful protesters, has increasing articulated disdain for the protests that continue across the country after the death of George Floyd. His comments Thursday were among his most aggressive attacks on the movement that rose up in recent years against racial profiling and police violence.
“Black Lives Matter leader states, ‘If U.S. doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.’ This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!” Trump tweeted.
A minute later he wrote: “Told that @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled & beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of Trump Tower/Tiffany, with a big yellow Black Lives Matter sign. ‘Pigs in a Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon,’ referring to killing Police, is their chant. NYC Police are furious.”
The first tweet seems to be a reference to a Fox News interview with Hawk Newsome – identified as the president of the Greater New York Black Lives Matter – that has been replayed many times on the network since it aired Wednesday.
Pressed on whether he believes violence is necessary to achieve the movement’s goals, Newsome answered, “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking . . . figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation.”
In the interview, he said the goal was to protect lives, not to hurt police officers, and called criticism of those efforts hypocritical. “We talk about uplifting and upholding the Second Amendment, but it seems to be the hypocrisy of America that when black people start talking about arming themselves and defending themselves, [that] talk is ‘violent’,” Newsome said in the segment. “But when white people grab assault rifles and go to our nation’s, their state capitals, it’s all good.”
The second tweet appears to reference a story published in the New York Post on Wednesday that claims New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, wants to commission a mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower similar to the one District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser had painted on a street that leads to the White House.
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America is history. Thanks to Schumer,Nadler,schiff,Engel and the rest of this evil democRATic gang.
You are right. You should add Hillary & Obama to the list. They have been the enablers and facilitators of these trash set to ruin America.
So the right wing is right. It is the Jews who ruined this country.
Dear Senile Biben2020 9:04am, the terminology “Jews” should apply only when the people in question were supported by the majority of the Jewish nation and were following strictly Jewish interests as opposed to the socialist interests – the Jewish nation is not responsible for a bunch of the socialist-fascist traitors, who may have been born Jewish, but not in any way represent the Jews. By the way, the nazis and Mussolini fascists were socialist; hence, it is the left wing who are the Jew blamers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/24/black-lives-matter-founder-mentored-by-ex-domestic-terrorist-who-worked-with-bill-ayers/
I dug myself into a hole and need a particular person to help me out of it.
Now what can I do to ensure he will look favorably on my request? I know I will slap his face good and hard in public. That should do it. Said De Blasio just before ordering the huge BLM mural to be painted
right in front of Trump Tower.
Anonymous you don’t have to worry about Engel he is history. The only problem is his
replacement is so much worse. Be careful what you wish for.
The failure of frum Jews to support Eliot Engel is a shonda. Medinat Yisrael has no better supporter in Washington. Our ingratitude will make fewer politicians wanting to support us in the future.
Dear Charlie Chaplin clown 8:29AM, the contemporary Dumbrats don’t support the long-term survival of Israel, including the so-called “moderate democrats”, whose only difference from the AOC style democrats is the superficial mask but not the substance. The frum community should cut all ties to the democratic party, as the socialist-fascist long-term political goals are irreconcilable with ours.
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Engel is worse. On the surface people think Engel is an angel. But he is for a two state solution and parrots the democRATic line. The new guy is a lunatic like AOC and has declared he can’t wait to get to congress to make trouble. The more loonies in the democRATic party the more normal democrats will leave it.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is incredibly, indescribably virtuous in his desire to spend government money painting a BLM logo near a building owned by arch-villain President Darth Trump. The fact that NYC is in such a cash crunch that Mayor de Blasio is threatening to lay off 22,000 employees is unimportant. The fact that the BLM movement explicitly supports the antisemitic BDS movement is also unimportant. Nope. Not important. Not significant. Even mentioning it means you’re one of the bad guys.
Thank you, Comrade Bill.