CNN’s Anderson Cooper said Monday that a tweet from President Trump
Donald John Trump Trump’s second term plans remain a mystery to the Republican Party Trump to hold an outdoor rally in New Hampshire on Saturday Eighty-eight years of debt mercy MORE Earlier in the day directed at Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s best black driver, he was “racist, plain and simple.”
In the tweet, the president accused Wallace of perpetrating a “hoax” related to a rope found in his garage at Talladega Speedway last month and said Wallace should apologize. He added that NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag from its properties contributed to the “lowest ratings EVER!”
Cooper, on his Monday night show, accused the president of “pointing to the only black in a room full of whites” and of “inventing things he definitely did not do,” to help reduce his number of polls.
Anderson Cooper is at a loss for words in Trump’s tweet Bubba Wallace: “It was racist, pure and simple.” pic.twitter.com/lQeC0zNGmM
– Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 7, 2020
Cooper also launched his program accusing the president of trying to divert people’s attention from the coronavirus crisis “by smearing a black NASCAR driver, supporting the Confederate flag and traitorous statues, which he claims as part of our proud heritage “
“If the divisive and inflammatory racist words could kill the coronavirus, then the President of the United States would be heading to Stockholm right now to collect his Nobel Prize for medicine.” – @AndersonCooper calls Trump’s comments a “deviation” from the increase in coronavirus cases. pic.twitter.com/EF8WvzAVum
– Anderson Cooper 360 ° (@ AC360) July 7, 2020
CNN and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
FBI investigators discovered that the rope found in Wallace’s garage had been there for months and was not directed at Wallace personally. But NASCAR released a photo of the rope, which was tied to the end by a tug on the garage door, and emphasized that “the rope was real.” Officials said that no other rope pull on the track was similarly tied.
Wallace responded earlier Monday to Trump’s tweet with a statement of his posted on Twitter, calling on fans to make love “natural” in the face of hate.
“Love should come naturally, since people are trying to hate. Even when it is hatred of POTUS … Love wins,” he said.
For the next generation and the little ones who follow in my footsteps. # LoveWins pic.twitter.com/tVaV3pkdLe
– Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) July 6, 2020
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