After a thoroughly crazy-time interview with Laura Ingraham last night, and today marking over six million cases of COVID-19 in the United States, Donald Trump sprang into action by shouting at the National Basketball Association on Twitter — as one does. NBA teams have been united behind the Black Lives Matter movement that has swept across the globe, and they are using their celebrity status to highlight systematic racism.
That thought, however, seems to eat away at the president. In my opinion, the current president is trying to foment a race war just ahead of the election in November. A president’s job, though, is to de-escalate tense situations and calm the waters. But, Trump took to Twitter to do the exact opposite.
People are tired of watching the highly political @NBA. Basketball ratings are WAY down, and they won’t be coming back. I hope football and baseball are watching and learning because the same thing will be happening to them. Stand tall for our Country and our Flag!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2020
Twitter users piled in.
— Nick #blm #wearamask (@subjectburst) September 1, 2020
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They ARE standing tall for our country and our flag.
— 😷——-6’——-😷 (@956chiver) September 1, 2020
Of course ratings are down; THEY’RE ON STRIKE
— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) September 1, 2020
This:
It is becoming more apparent by the day that the choice we face on November 3 is not Democrat or Republican. It is, to put it bluntly, democracy or facism. pic.twitter.com/9JVaBrrFTq
— Lincoln (@Truth_Truth_Now) September 1, 2020
👉🏽225 days since the first COVID Case
👉🏽189 days since Trump said“We only had 15 Cases & soon, we will be down to zero”
👉🏽147 days since Trump started pushing Hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid
👉🏽131 days since Trump said “Covid goes away with Heat”
👉🏽 Today 185,000 Dead
— Just Vent (@JustVent6) September 1, 2020
180,000 people dead from #COVID19 because of your neglect as a leader, your people are killing peaceful protesters, only thing your upset about is black sport stars using their free speech right of bringing systemic racism and police brutality aware to the people, shame on you.
— David Former Trump Supporter Weissman (@davidmweissman) September 1, 2020
Mapping Police Violence, a crowdsourced database that includes deaths by vehicle, tasering, or beating in addition to shootings, estimates twenty-five police killings of unarmed Black men in 2019. Apparently, the president is OK with that. Trump is in battle with athletes that choose to take a knee in silent protest instead of the coronavirus pandemic.
Featured image via DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos
