TRUMP RALLIES NOW RACIST

The Memo: Trump's Tulsa decision sparks new race controversy

President Trump will begin campaign rallies again next week but the first event on his schedule is drawing accusations of racial insensitivity — even as his allies make a very different case.

Trump’s first rally since the nation went into a coronavirus-related lockdown in March will be held in Tulsa on June 19. The Oklahoma city was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in modern U.S. history back in 1921, while June 19 is “Juneteenth,” which marks the end of slavery.

Democrats are outraged by Trump’s decision, especially in the wake of a series of controversial comments the president has made about nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

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Bakari Sellers, a former Democratic state representative in South Carolina, told The Hill Trump’s choice of venue was “disrespectful.” Sellers also predicted that the president would employ the kind of incendiary rhetoric that he has used on many other occasions.

“You never want the arsonist to put gasoline on the fire, and that’s what he will be doing,” Sellers said. Referring to one of the president’s most conservative advisors, Sellers added, “Stephen Miller and Donald Trump don’t deserve to be anywhere close to the discussion of race.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/502379-the-memo-trumps-tulsa-decision-sparks-new-race-controversy