Trump, in a hole, digs deeper into racial incitement

[Zorro]

President Trump on Wednesday suggested that painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on New York City’s Fifth Avenue would amount to a “symbol of hate,” complaining that such an action would be “expensive” and “denigrating [to] this luxury Avenue.”

That came shortly after a threat by the president to veto the Pentagon’s budget legislation should it include a measure to take the names of Confederate generals off military bases, which he denounced as being sponsored by “Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren (of all people!).”

That came only hours after his declaration that he “may END” a federal housing regulation aimed at desegregating neighborhoods, which he claimed has had “a devastating impact” on America’s suburbs.

And that came roughly a day after he re-tweeted a video of supporters in an almost entirely white Florida retirement community shouting “white power” from a golf cart.

Sinking further behind former Vice President Joe Biden in presidential election polls, Trump in recent days has indulged in a string of blatant appeals to racism.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-01/trump-digs-deeper-racial-incitement

[lagomorph777]

1. Ironically, painting BLM right in front of Turd Tower would probably increase the property value.

Turd's landlord, Putin, would be very pleased.

[malaise]

2. He didn't write that - I'm betting that the word denigrating was chosen deliberately by that racist

Miller

[Harker]

3. "luxury Avenue"

sounds like the sort of clunker he'd spew, though.

[malaise]

4. Yep

This was no dog whistle - it was the fill orchestra

[Harker]

5. I think you're right about Miller

waving the baton.

[Blue Owl]

6. Fuck him and his luxury avenue

n/t