Trump says he hopes George Floyd 'looking down' and seeing today's jobs numbers as 'a great day for
Source: Independent.co.uk
Donald Trump says he hopes George Floyd, who was killed by police on Memorial Day after an officer forced his knee on the back of his neck for nearly nine minutes while facing the ground in handcuffs, is "looking down right now" and saying today is a "great thing that's happening for our country" as the nation's unemployment rate declined but remains higher than during the Great Recession.
The president said: "Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying, 'This is a great thing that's happening for our country. It's a great day for him, it's a great day for everybody. It's a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day."
Asked how the rate of unemployment among black Americans can be considered a "victory" as it continues to increase, the president told a reporter outside the White House, "You are really something."
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-george-floyd-press-conference-today-job-numbers-a9551426.html
UPDATE: The reporter asking the question was Yamiche Alcindor of PBS.
Note: The unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up 16.8% in the May jobs report, while the unemployment rate for whites went down. The unemployment rate also went up for Asian Americans to 15%.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-unemployment-rate-black-asian-coronavirus-1508940
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)She'll file for divorce later.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)How long will it take investigative journalists to discover that the books were cooked?
Jirel
(2,018 posts)There is no depravity too great for him.
lastlib
(23,244 posts)Fuck this worthless trainload of shit with a hot pitchfork. Sideways.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I don't think this is going to go over well.
jstephenj
(51 posts)It's directed to his base and independents to allay them of guilt in supporting him.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)I want to scream and cry.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Turd has accomplished what Ray-gun could only dream of.
Botany
(70,516 posts)... the fairness doctrine and for 2.5 generations millions of Americans have been bathed in
misinformation such as Fox News.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)What a piece of work he is...please resign.
still_one
(92,219 posts)This piece of garbage has to be removed in November
AZ8theist
(5,475 posts)No ACTUAL HUMAN BEING could be this sooooo FUCKING IMBECILIC and NARCISSIST...
Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. The DUMBEST MOTHERFUCKER ON THE FUCKING PLANET said this....
Now makes perfect sense.
I weep for my country.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)I'm gonna break my own nose.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Of course I'm speaking in hyperbole, but it's counterproductive to feign disbelief about this administration anymore.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Go away Trump.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)care about. The unemployment numbers are just more propaganda that anyone on their right mind wouldn't believe.
DemoTex
(25,399 posts)Motherfucker.
The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,181 posts)ms liberty
(8,580 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)"Yea, Mister Trump, keep 'em pissed off while we go on skulking behind the scenes."
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)Many sociopaths learn how to pretend they're normal, but not Trump.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)folks are unemployed.
Where was his presser to talk over 108,000 people dead from CV-19 and the tragedy that befell George Floyd.
I so DESPISE this orange fool.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)folks are unemployed.
Where was his presser to talk about over 108,000 people dead from CV-19 and the tragedy that befell George Floyd.
I so DESPISE this orange fool.
olddad65
(599 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)ABSOLUTELY 'Presidential'
Does that really need?
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)What a sick fuck
Nitram
(22,813 posts)Response to Native (Original post)
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Mme. Defarge
(8,033 posts)(Never on Sunday)
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)What an insensitive, unthinking doorknob that asshat is. Does he ever think before he opens that sewer hole of a mouth?
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)Stuart G
(38,434 posts)Doodley
(9,093 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)How are his followers not humiliated by these kinds of bizarre and completely ludicrous performances. This is not how healthy people think or behave. Yeesh.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)padah513
(2,503 posts)I always look for the Onion or Borowitz at the bottom of the post.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)If the Republic survives and we are free from this criminal this time next year, we will discover the numbers are lies.
George II
(67,782 posts)And the idiots in the rose garden clapped for his comments!
gembaby1
(253 posts)Stop taking credit for something you had nothing to do with. Its probably true that many people got their job back in the United States and in Canada in May, but this doesnt reflect on the black community. They are still struggling. And the country at large is still dealing with appalling unemployment numbers.
agingdem
(7,850 posts)the Holocaust was a "great day" for Jews...Tiananmen Square Massacre was a "great day" for the Chinese...The Long Walk of the Navajo was a "great day' for Native Americans...The Elaine Massacre was a "great day" for Black Americans..The Pulse Night Club Massacre was a "great day' for hispanics and gays...
why don't we celebrate other great days...Babies in Cages Day...Muslim Ban Day...El Paso Walmart Domestic Terrorist Attack Day..Parkland Shooting Day...Sandy Hook Shooting Day..Pandemic Day..
I will personally start a gofundme to the first reporter that asks Trump..."It's a given that you are a depraved narcissistic sociopath..my question is this: because you are solely responsible for 109,000 needless deaths and teargassing and smoke bombing peaceful protesters why the fuck are you still allowed to walk this earth instead of locked up in a prison for the criminally insane, sir?"
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...even at the start of his Presidency in the height of the Great Recession.
progree
(10,909 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)and I hope that Mr. Floyd's family will denounce this opportunistic use of their murdered loved one as a prop by a racist president.
Lulu KC
(2,567 posts)So many layers of crazy
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,577 posts)We should stop thinking he will ever be normal. In fact, as has been said many times, asking how much worse it can get is seen as a personal challenge to him... ..
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Texin
(2,596 posts)Native
(5,942 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Native
(5,942 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,741 posts)tinrobot
(10,903 posts)When someone is held up as an icon and that is used against him, he attacks in the most controversial way possible.
It is his way of both deflecting the threat and getting attention.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)BusyBeingBest
(8,054 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)
when it decorates his campaign plan. He just keeps going lower, and lower, and lower etc.
Initech
(100,080 posts)PSPS
(13,601 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Defend THIS, Jerry Falwell Jr.!
LeftInTX
(25,371 posts)I don't think so.
IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)progree
(10,909 posts)# Black unemployment rate https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006
First 5 months of 2020: 6.0, 5.8, 6.7, 16.7, 16.8 Trump: "what have you got to lose?"
# White unemployment rate https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000003
First 5 months of 2020: 3.1, 3.1, 4.0, 14.2, 12.4
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)under said barrel.