Big protests expected as Trump goes to Phoenix for rally

[workinclasszero]

Big protests expected as Trump goes to Phoenix for rally
Ayesha Rascoe AUGUST 22, 2017 / 5:17 AM / AN HOUR AGO

WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Large protests could greet President Donald Trump on Tuesday when he travels to Arizona for his first campaign rally since he caused an uproar with his remarks about a white nationalist demonstration in Virginia.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat, asked the Republican president to postpone Tuesday's event scheduled for 7 p.m. MST (0200 GMT on Wednesday) in light of his response to the street battles that broke out earlier this month at a protest against the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville.

Trump was widely criticized for blaming both white nationalists and counter-protesters for the violence at the rally organized by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

"America is hurting. And it is hurting largely because Trump has doused racial tensions with gasoline," Stanton wrote in the Washington Post. "With his planned visit to Phoenix on Tuesday, I fear the president may be looking to light a match."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKCN1B211U

[flibbitygiblets]

1. I don't believe he's looking to "light a match". He just craves to hear some cheering crowds.

That's the only reason he exists, that and golf apparently. He's a bottomless pit of need, but since has virtually zero strategic skills, it never occurred to him that there would be so much scrutiny and criticism once in the White House.

So, to compensate, he occasionally goes to "friendly" cities where he can absorb applause and praise from deplorables like a vampire getting a fix of blood. He has a third golf course in SoCal, but we'll never see him on the west coast because the protests would be headline news.

[lunasun]

2. Make it big Phoenix . Peace and Prevail