Trump Aides Biting Their Nails Over POTUS’ Inflammatory Tweets About Protests

President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters during his 'Made In America' product showcase at the White House on July 15, 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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As President Donald Trump fires off tweet after tweet attacking his political enemies and protesters amid the demonstrations against the death of George Floyd, his aides are reportedly fretting that his antagonistic rhetoric could come back to bite him in November.

Axios, NBC News, and the New York Times report that Trump’s aides have been urging the President to cool it with the divisive tweets and instead attempt to unify the nation by giving a formal address about Floyd, who died after a white officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota kneeled on his neck, as protests against police brutality rage throughout the country.

Trump’s incendiary response to the protests drew intense backlash on Friday after he threatened via Twitter to send the National Guard to Minnesota and declared that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” The phrase, which has roots in law enforcement’s racist policing of black communities in the 1960s, prompted Twitter to add a warning label to Trump’s post for “glorifying violence.”

A senior White House official told Axios that the tweet was “stupid.”

And yet Trump has disregarded his advisers’ warnings, as he is wont to do, and is trying to use the crisis to boost his reelection campaign and attack his Democratic presidential rival, Joe Biden.

“Sleep Joe Biden’s people are so Radical Left that they are working to get the Anarchists out of jail, and probably more. Joe doesn’t know anything about it, he is clueless, but they will be the real power, not Joe,” Trump tweeted on Monday morning. “They will be calling the shots! Big tax increases for all, Plus!”

On Sunday, the President tweeted that “the World is watching and laughing at” Democrats “and Sleepy Joe.”

“Is this what America wants? NO!!!” he wrote.

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  1. If only there were some procedure written into the constitution by which his aides could have him formally evaluated for fitness to discharge his duties, and removed if not, under the supervision and approval of both houses of congress.

  2. Expecting Trump to say something non-inflammatory is the same as expecting the original Fuhrer to have condemned anti-Semitism.

  3. Trump will not follow advisors’ advice because he believes he already IS expressing a unifying message, just for the people he feels comfortable unifying, as indicated in this video from the Lincoln Project:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w7kwtLJtVc
  4. Avatar for dont dont says:

    So now they’re worried the inflammatory rhetoric he’s been slinging for the past eleven plus years will hurt him?
    WTF?

  5. " Axios, NBC News, and the New York Times report that Trump’s aides have been urging the President to cool it with the divisive tweets and instead attempt to unify the nation by giving a formal address about Floyd, "

    Biden needs to go ahead and pull the trigger on this himself, and give a prime time national speech to the country. Do that tonight, and the election is over.

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