BLM/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd. My administration is fully committed that for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain, but we cannot allow the righteous cries and peaceful protestors to be drown out by an angry mob. The biggest victims of the rioting are peace loving citizens in our poorest communities and as their president, I will fight to keep them safe…
Small business owners have seen the dreams utterly destroyed. New York’s finest have been hit in the face with bricks, brave nurses who have battled the virus are afraid to leave their homes…
America needs creation not destruction, cooperation not contempt, security not anarchy, healing not hatred, justice not chaos.”
-Donald Trump, “Statement by the President,” whitehouse.gov, June 1, 2020