Article from November 2019 when Trump was trying to garner black votes with a new initiative. Reelection Campaign Launches 'Black Voices For Trump' Initiative Heard on Morning Edition Ayesha Rascoe November 8, 2019 5:02 AM ET Reelection Campaign Launches 'Black Voices For Trump' Initiative
Trump won't be paying condolences to Lewis at the Capitol. Trump will not visit Capitol to pay respects to civil rights icon John Lewis
Trump is sending Pence to the Capitol to pay respects to Lewis. Pence is the one who travels at taxpayer expense to a sports venue so that he can walk out when someone is seen kneeling during the national anthem in honor of blacks who were abused by the police.
One guy fired his gun while trying to get into a basement that doesn't exist... Holy crap these people are stupid.
Trump's initial cabinet had the highest ratio of whites (86.4%) relative to the percentage of whites in the general population (61.5%) for administrations going back to 1981. It's a ratio of 1.4 over-representation of whites. Reagan had 90.;5% whites in his initial cabinet relative to a general public white percentage of 79.6%, a ratio of 1.14. That is significantly lower than Trump's ratio of 1.4. Trump's cabinet is far from reflecting the racial diversity of the United States The cabinet has no Hispanics, even though Latinos are the biggest minority in the United States. African Americans lost the ground they gained under President Barack Obama, with one cabinet post compared to five in the Obama cabinet. Amaya Verdey and Patricia Vélez Santiago 23 January 2017 – 4:01 PM EST https://www.univision.com/noticias/...ing-the-racial-diversity-of-the-united-states
The percentage of whites in the general population has decreased significantly from 79.6% in 1981 to 61.5% in 2017. The racial composition of Trump's initial cabinet doesn't reflect that downward trend and overly represents whites far more than Reagan's administration.. The initial cabinets of Clinton and Obama under-represented whites with a ratio of about 0.87.
Trump's initial cabinet composition highly under-represented the Hispanic population which has grown significantly since 1989.
Like he did with the anti-distancing, gun-toting dissidents who stormed the state capitol in Michigan during the peak of the coronavirus deaths, Trump might go so far as to tell the pizza shop to bargain with the gunman because he represents good people.
The guy was arrested... Trump probably gave him a pardon so he can get his guns back. Probably gave him a job with the stormtroopers.
Trump is appealing to his idealized, post-WWII perception of monolithic white suburbs that has evaporated gradually over the decades and is not likely to return. He has similar idealized, outdated conceptions about steel workers, coal miners, and farmers. It's an appeal to a lost fatherland that scapegoat groups supposedly took away. Trump's message collides with diversifying suburbs Analysis by Ronald Brownstein Updated 12:36 AM ET, Tue July 28, 2020 Trump's 2020 election message collides with diversifying suburbs - CNNPolitics excerpt: "President Donald Trump's racially charged warnings to suburban voters about crime and housing face a fundamental headwind: the suburbs themselves are much more racially diverse than even two decades ago. In contrast to the stereotype of homogenous communities of White families behind white picket fences, in many of the largest suburban counties around America Whites now compose only about half or less of the population. That's especially true in the Sun Belt suburbs around cities such as Atlanta, Orlando, Phoenix, Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas and Austin, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina, which are emerging as critical election battlegrounds in 2020 and beyond. But the diversification of the suburbs extends even to the classic "bedroom" communities of the Northeast, like the suburbs of New York City and Washington, DC. Of the 488 US counties the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program classifies as suburban in larger metropolitan areas, the White share of the population fell in 468 of them from 2000 to 2019, according to calculations by demographer William Frey. Trump may find some receptive ears among suburbanites of all races for his attempt to portray himself as a human wall protecting them from chaos and disorder in the cities, political strategists agree. But the suburbs' growing diversity means he faces a vastly different, and more difficult, audience than Richard Nixon did when making similar arguments half a century ago."
Trump's 2020 election message collides with diversifying suburbs - CNNPolitics excerpt: "In recent weeks, Trump has targeted suburban voters with ominous messages. He's warned that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would "destroy" the suburbs, accused big-city Democratic mayors of coddling criminals and cowering before protesters for racial justice, and revoked a regulation approved under Barack Obama's administration to encourage more racial and economic integration in housing. In a recent tele-rally with Wisconsin supporters, Trump was anything but subtle in appealing to racial anxieties about those rules: Democrats, he said, will "eliminate single-family zoning, bringing who knows [who] into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down." In a tweet last week, he directed the same warning to "The Suburban Housewives of America." While such arguments may move some voters, many sociologists and political strategists say they reflect a Nixon-era vision of the suburbs that no longer encompasses the reality."
Trump apparently felt upstaged when Fauci threw a ceremonial first pitch. Trump hasn't thrown a first pitch during his term, yet he suddenly desired it when Fauci did it. Every president since 1910 has thrown a ceremonial first pitch, except Trump. Report: Trump 'annoyed' by Fauci, 'surprised' Yankees with first-pitch announcement Jason Owens Yahoo Sports July 27, 2020, 10:52 PM excerpt: "About 90 minutes later, Fauci tossed out the ill-fated first pitch that landed short and left of home plate to open the MLB season. Fauci — not Trump — had been invited to throw the pitch that also served as a celebration of the Washington Nationals as they opened their World Series title defense in the nation’s capital. Some viewed the invitation as a slight to Trump, whose White House had criticized and attempted to discredit Fauci and his divergent approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci urged caution while the White House urged businesses to reopen as the United States became the epicenter of the global crisis. According to the Times, Trump was indeed agitated. And he wanted a first pitch of his own after eschewing the presidential tradition during his entire time in office. From the Times report: “But Mr. Trump had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci’s turn in the limelight, an official familiar with his reaction said, that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from Mr. Levine to throw out an opening pitch. No date was ever finalized.” Alas, the Yankees were not forced to scramble to accommodate the president. On Sunday, Trump announced that he in fact would not throw out the first pitch on Aug. 15 while vowing to “make it later in the season!” Here’s guessing the Yankees aren’t holding their collective breath."
Fauci's baseball card sales in 24 hours have broken every record ever made. Previous record was 19,396 copies.
Once again, Trump didn't learn his lesson. Trump shatters his own show of responsibility on the pandemic Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Updated 8:05 AM ET, Tue July 28, 2020 Trump shatters his own show of responsibility on the pandemic - CNNPolitics excerpt: "The idea that President Donald Trump has turned some new leaf and is now maturely leading the fight against the pandemic is yet again being exposed as a pure political play by his own behavior. Trump on Monday launched a fresh push to get states to quickly reopen their economies, ignoring the fact that his previous advice on such lines helped spark a surge of cases in the Sun Belt. Then the President retweeted a video in which a group of doctors make false claims about the virus, including one who says "you don't need masks" because hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug pushed by the President, is a "cure" in combination with several other drugs. Multiple credible scientific studies say the treatment is ineffective against Covid-19. The video, which went viral on YouTube, was later removed by Facebook and Twitter because it spread misinformation. It was just the latest occasion when Trump's scripted shows of responsibility about the virus, witnessed in his return to the White House briefing last week, were undermined by what appears to be his true, conspiratorial, politicized views. Only last week, the President grudgingly became one of the last public officials to endorse the use of masks to slow the spread of the virus. Now, yet again, he is undercutting government advice on the matter."
Memorial Day weekend. It’s Official: 100,000 Are Dead of Covid-19 in America, and Their Blood Is on Trump’s Hands excerpt: "Yet Trump doesn’t seem to give a damn. Having slammed Obama for golfing during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which killed only two people in the U.S., Trump spent the past weekend back at his own golf course, as deaths from Covid-19 approached the 100,000 mark. There has been no remorse, no regret, and few condolences for the families of the dead. Shamelessly, the commander-in-chief has preferred to take a victory lap as the bodies literally pile up."
The salient aspect isn't so much the quality of H-D bikes but rather Trump's vengeance when he thinks someone isn't being loyal to him, even a blue-colllar American owned and operated business. Trump threatened GM over the Lordstown closings and again over issues related to GM's manufacturing of ventilators during the deadliest phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Another example is his capricious reinstatement of metal tariffs on Brazil and Argentina after they had worked successfully with Trump and achieved an exemption. Trump apparently became upset when he later found out that the two were involved in relations with China to produce soy for it that was lost from American suppliers due to Trump's trade wars. Trump reactivated his metal wars on them (which adversely affects American metal producers and industry and farmers who need metals) because of an agricultural issue caused by his trade wars with China. He asserted one of his favorite unsupported claims about China that he thought the two countries were manipulating their currencies when facts showed they were in no position financially to do so. Still another is his increased animosity toward China (such as closing its consulate in Texas and cutting off money to the WHO for allegedly being in cahoots with China) because he feels whatever trade war mitigation agreement he had reached was spoiled by what he believes was China unleashing the coronavirus onto the U.S. from a research lab (whose collaboration with the U.S. Trump later ended abruptly by cutting off research money). Each of Trump's attempted fixes, often capricious and emotionally-based, creates a cascade of more problems.
After his cascade of problems accumulates beyond remedy, Trump searches for distraction fixes. An example is his provocation of urban areas with Democratic mayors by using various federal security agencies run by acting officials as his personal private military force so that he can wear a facade of being tough. Bullying migrants didn't garner any votes during the 2018 midterms which left Republicans damaged, so he upped the ante and resorted to agitating U.S. citizens in urban areas. Another distraction fix is his Hispanic Prosperity Initiative to try to regain lost votes due to his divisive behavior toward Hispanics. The CEO of Goya Foods wants to cash in on Trump's last-ditch, pro-Hispanic sounding campaign ploy. He claims that Trump is a builder and uniter when in fact the initiative is another distraction to all of the problems that Trump created with his dismantling and dividing.