Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The National Guard has arrived on the scene. They are in Minneapolis and fully prepared. George Floyd will not have died in vain. Respect his memory!!!
10:46 AM · May 29, 2020
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.....
12:53 AM · May 29, 202
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....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!
12:53 AM · May 29, 2020
The Democrat Party is the party of criminals, both big and small.
I am glad that disgusting cop was arrested and I hope he is tried for murder. Before you attack me, make sure you see the actual video. Tired of our whole damned country believing that everyone with a badge - and now the TSA too - are heroes, above the law, delighting in civil forfeiture, and arresting people willy-nilly. And I’ve had just about enough of the badge-lickers on FR, too, all of whom scream “freedom, thanks to our overlords!”
I’m a big Trump fan but this sounds like a backtrack for sure. I don’t have any problem with the National Guard shooting looters if necessary to restore order, though I don’t remember the last time it was done.
Some bad optics though, when “looting leads to shooting” was apparently a phrase used by George Wallace and others in segregation times.
Twitter is having a field day over this.
Choot ‘em
Honor the memory of George Floyd? Didn’t he serve time for robbery and other offenses? He was no Martin Luther King.
Regardless of what Trump tweeted or did not tweet, or what he meant or did not mean, looters should be shot on sight and their supporters should be given absolutely no quarter.
It does not matter that the cop in question should be tried for murder. (And it appears he will be.) NOTHING excuses rioting nd looting like a bunch of uncivilized animals, ever.
I want arsonists and looters shot, so Go Trump!
Paging Paul Kersey . . . .
Exactly!
Sadly, he’s right.