President Trump upbraided several governors in a tense call today after days of rioting nationwide amid the marches over the police-custody killing of George Floyd in Minnesota — telling the state leaders they would look like “jerks” if they didn’t come down harder on protesters, according to reports. The president began the conference call by criticizing governors for their response to the week-long crisis with an angry missive about how they were being soft on demonstrators — many who have co-opted the outcry over Floyd’s death for their own purposes with mass looting and violence possibly prompted by outside organizations.
“You have to dominate,” Trump told state leaders on the call, according to audio obtained by the New York Times. “If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time — they’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to arrest people, and you have to try people, and they have to go to jail for long periods of time.” Read more.
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What would happen if Trump would balance his response with some sympathy and empathy for how George Floyd died. i e. “Its terrible how he died, but we don’t loot and set fires.” Some validation might go a long way.