Last night the Park Police had a confrontation with protesters trying to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square
Obviously Jackson is a controversial figure for many reasons (slave owner, statute built by slave), but protesters attacking his statute should not come as a surprise, right . .. .because Trump egged them on way back in 2016
What was one of trump's first acts, actually BEFORE he was President?
"Harriet Tubman $20 bill no longer coming in 2020: Mnuchin says redesign postponed"
This was Trump in 2016
"President Donald Trump, months before he was elected, called the decision to put Tubman on the currency “pure political correctness” and proposed putting her portrait on the $2 bill."
PEOPLE ARE NOT IDIOTS. TRUMP GOT ELECTED, IN PART, BY PLAYING TO RACISTS AND HE'S ACTUALLY DOUBLED DOWN ON IT MULTIPLE TIMES. the Tubman $20 is just one example. "put her on the $2," says Trump!
LOL, so last night became, in Trump's words . . "BAD PEOPLE" versus a "GREAT MONUMENT"
Trump told reporters Tuesday that law enforcement stopped an attack on a "great monument" and said "numerous people are in jail and going to jail today."
"We are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and these anarchists and agitators and call them whatever you want. Some people don’t like that language, but that’s what they are. They’re bad people, they don’t love our country, and they’re not taking down our monuments," he said.
https://twitter.com/nbcwashington/status/1275459427974381572?s=20
In Trump World, to "love" Jackson is to love the country, to "love" Harriett Tubman is to be an anarchist or "bad people"
TRUMPISM -- us (white people) versus them (criminals which includes black people, Mexicans, liberals etc)
