After weeks of protests across the country over a series of police killings of black people, President Donald Trump has claimed that “more white people” actually die at the hands of the police.
The president made the comment after appearing to briefly lose it when asked about the hot topic in a CBS News interview.
“Why do African Americans continue to die at the hands of the police in this country?” Hostess Catherine Herridge asked, prompting the President to back off immediately.
“So are whites. That’s the way whites are! What a terrible question to ask, “he snorted.” So are whites. “
Studies have shown that black men are approximately 3.5 times more likely to die in police custody than white men. White men were killed by police in the highest number between 2013 and 2017, but whites make up a higher percentage of the American population than blacks, according to a Harvard study.
Trump has made white complaint politics and culture warfare a centerpiece of his reelection drive in recent weeks, defending Confederate monuments and military bases named in honor of Confederate generals, even as he ridicules those who participated in protests against racism as “bad, evil”. people “who seek to destroy the country.
Beyond that, it’s aimed at Black NASCAR’s only full-time driver, Bubba Wallace, falsely accusing him of perpetrating a hate crime “hoax” after an alleged rope was discovered in his garage at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway earlier this month. past. Trump turned to Twitter to demand that Wallace “apologize” after the FBI concluded that the rope was not a hate crime, but Wallace was not the one who first reported it.
Amid what has become a national trial of racism in the country, Trump has strayed in the other direction and has refused to acknowledge that racism is a problem. In fact, perhaps the most revealing response he has offered to the problem of racism at the center of the protests was a recent retweet of a video showing a Trump supporter arguing with protesters and shouting “white power.”
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