Listen to this articleUS President Donald Trump has suggested that the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement is discriminatory towards black people and bad for everybody because of its name. President Trump has stirred racial tensions amid months of demonstrations against systemic racism and police violence. He delivered his words in an interview on Monday. President was speaking with Fox News host Laura Ingraham regarding protests in Portland and Wisconsin last week. Trump described the first time he heard the name of the movement, Black Lives Matter. President said the group has been routinely attacked by president Trump amid protests. The group has a terrible name that was discriminatory towards black people.
President Trump informed reporter host Ingraham and said, “The first time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter, I said, that’s a terrible name. It’s so discriminatory. It’s bad for Black people, it’s bad for everybody”. He also described the movement’s members as Thugs. In July, he described LM murals as denigrating. Those comments come after he defended the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager accused of fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, designed protests against the police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake. He was speaking during a White House briefing ahead of visiting the city on Tuesday. President Trump said the 17-year-old was being very violently attacked before he allegedly opened fire on protesters.
Point to be noted that Wisconsin’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers also warned President Trump that visiting the site of protests would hinder our healing. President Trump has sparked a backlash after retweeting a post from a reported white supremacist on Sunday falsely blaming a subway attack in New York City on the Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa. Trump previously shared a video of the random attack on the New York City subway. The video shows a 28-year-old suspect and well-known transit nuisance was arrested last year after he was seen pushing a white woman head-first into a parked subway car. Trump retweeted the video in June from an account known to spread xenophobic and anti-immigrant content. He shared the video again on social media during the weekend.
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