President Donald Trump took a dig at Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Monday morning after the Utah lawmaker marched in a Black Lives Matter protest with evangelical Christians in Washington, D.C. against police brutality on Sunday.
“Tremendous sincerity, what a guy,” Trump wrote while retweeting a video of Romney at the demonstration. “Hard to believe, with this kind of political talent, his numbers would ‘tank’ so badly in Utah!”
Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson captured the video, in which Romney stated that he was participating “to make sure that people understand that black lives matter” in wake of George Floyd’s death.
Romney also tweeted photos of himself at the march with the caption “Black Lives Matter.”
Black Lives Matter. pic.twitter.com/JpXUFlxH2J
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) June 7, 2020
Trump has repeatedly targeted the GOP senator for breaking from the rest of the party and voting to convict him in the impeachment trial in January.
The nation has seen waves of demonstrations against rampant racism in the criminal justice system for nearly two weeks in wake of now-former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin’s killing of George Floyd, a black man who had been arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin, who has been charged with murder over Floyd’s death, kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly ten minutes while the arrestee repeatedly told the officer he couldn’t breathe.
Trump has threatened to take brutal steps to quash the demonstrations, some of which have turned violent as a result of police officers’ heavy-handed measures against the protesters, going as far as declaring “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Says the guy utterly unconcerned that his own numbers are "tank"ing as we speak. Been following 538, fuckface? This one Morning Consult poll had you at 36 to 59! If you’re confused about statistics let me Demsplain for you, that’s bad! Oh, and did you see Mitt was marching with a thousand of his evangelical friends? That’s bad for you too! Glad we could have this talk!
Romney strikes me as a guy that really tries to do the right thing and does have some very deeply held moral principles and beliefs. He’s also a corporate robber baron and you can say a lot of things about the Mormon church and I vehemently disagree with him on probably hundreds of points.
But at the very least, he seems to be trying – at times – to be a good human being. What a reflection on the Republican party of today that just that seems to make him stand out so much.
I think at this point Romney is just doing whatever he feels like doing while he waits for his eviction notice from the Republican Party.
Shocked to see that even a Republican Senator has become Antifa!
The fact that Romney marched is to his credit.
The fact that he was apparently the only prominent Republican to do so says everything about today’s Republican Party.