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Trump
promotes
video of
a
supporter
saying
‘white
power’
By
Anne
Gearan
White
House
reporter
washingtonpost.com
WASHINGTON
DC -
President
Trump
promoted
a video
Sunday
that
includes
a Trump
supporter
saying
“white
power”
while
facing
off with
counterprotesters,
calling
his
supporters
at the
Florida
retirement
community
where
the
demonstration
occurred
“great
people.”
The
tweet of
the
video
has
since
been
removed.
The
video of
a
pro-Trump
golf
cart
parade
in the
Villages,
a
retirement
community
in
central
Florida,
includes
counterprotesters
calling
the
president
a bigot.
The
video
shows
Trump
supporters
and
opponents
facing
off in
screaming
matches
filled
with
expletives
and
insults.
“Thank
you to
the
great
people
of The
Villages.
The
Radical
Left Do
Nothing
Democrats
will
Fall in
the
Fall.
Corrupt
Joe is
shot.
See you
soon!!!”
Trump
tweeted,
as he
shared
the
video
that
opens
with an
elderly
white
man in a
golf
cart
decorated
with
Trump
signs
being
heckled
by a
counterprotester
who asks
“where’s
your
white
hood?”
The man
responds
by twice
saying
“white
power”
as a
woman
beside
him
chants
“Trump!
Trump!”
The
tweet
was up
for at
least 90
minutes.
It was
removed
some
time
before
11:30
a.m.
Asked
about
the
tweet,
White
House
deputy
press
secretary
Judd
Deere
said
"President
Trump is
a big
fan of
The
Villages.
He did
not hear
the one
statement
made on
the
video.
What he
did see
was
tremendous
enthusiasm
from his
many
supporters.”
On
Sunday
morning
Sen. Tim
Scott
(R), the
only
black
Republican
Senator,
called
on the
president
to take
down his
tweet.
“There’s
no
question:
He
should
not have
retweeted
it; he
should
just
take it
down,”
Scott
said on
CNN’s
“State
of the
Union."
Asked if
he was
offended
by
Trump’s
tweet,
he
responded:
“we
could
play
politics
with it,
or we
can’t –
I’m not
going
to."
"I
think
it’s
indefensible,
we
should
take it
down,”
he
added.
The
“great
people”
language
recalls
Trump’s
description
of some
who
attended
a 2017
white-supremacist
march in
Charlottesville
as “very
fine
people.”
Some of
the
counterprotesters
in the
Florida
video
hold
signs
supporting
former
vice
president
Joe
Biden,
the
presumed
Democratic
nominee
challenging
Trump in
November.
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