Trump gives laughably insincere excuse for his “looting and shooting” tweet
May 29, 2020
After igniting a national firestorm of outrage with his appalling remarks on the protests in Minneapolis over yet another police murder of a Black American, President Trump attempted to walk back the worst implications in his “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” tweet.
The president attempted to claim that he simply meant that “looting leads to shooting,” and pointed to several shootings that had occurred at protests as evidence that he was right. He promised that he didn’t “want this to happen” and doubled down on his infuriating demand that we “honor the memory” of George Floyd…by doing nothing and letting his memory fade away.