Looks what’s going on here. President Donald Trump tweeted a video clip Tuesday showing an African-American man beating up a white gentleman in what appears to be a department store. The video clip is violent, short, and presented with very little context, and Trump simply asked “Looks what’s going on here. Where are the protesters? Was this man arrested?” CNN's New Day called out Trump for the tweet. Guest Alexi McCammon of Axios said “this is another example of something that President Trump is doing, apparently to fan the flames and sort of, you know, exacerbate these racial tensions that we’re already seeing played out throughout the country. And ‘racial tensions’ is generous. These are overt and egregious acts of extreme racism.” Monuments Trump claimed in an interview Monday that he would sign an executive order to “make the cities guard their monuments” in response to monuments and statues being taken down in cities across the country. “We’re going to do an executive order and we’re going to make the cities guard their monuments," he said in the interview. Then on Tuesday he tweeted with more enthusiasm about the punishments. New Zealand The New Zealand government caused a stir, and got international attention, when it released a porn star-themed advertisement this month in an effort to get parents to watch their children’s habits online. ‘Summer of Love’ cancelled Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wrote on Twitter Monday evening that police “will be peacefully returning” to the so-called autonomous zone in the city’s Capitol Hill area, potentially ending what she had said could be a “summer of love” in the area. Audience plants The Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house in Barcelona, Spain hosted a socially-distanced concert for an audience of 2,292 plants this week amid the coronavirus pandemic. Parscale under fire Former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski took a swipe at current campaign chief Brad Parscale for promising big crowds at the Tulsa rally on Saturday and “under-delivering,” adding that it is “the biggest mistake you can make in politics." He's not the only one pointing fingers at Brad. Even among supporters it's a no “If there was a single place where you would think that the weird reality distortion field of Donald Trump would work, it would be at a rally with his hardest of hardcore supporters.” Chris Hayes opened his show Monday night talking about the surprise of President Trump’s Tulsa rally crowd not filling up the venue like everyone assumed. "He cannot just flap his lips and pretend that we are not in the midst of a global pandemic," said Hayes. Sorry Jimmy Kimmel apologized on Tuesday for wearing blackface during an impression of NBA player Karl Malone in the 1990s and acknowledged several other insensitive impressions of Black celebrities, which he said he now recognizes as “embarrassing” and “thoughtless.” Thanks for watching, Mr President President Trump scolded Fox News for a reporter mentioning the border wall. And anchor Bret Baier responded and corrected him. 6.5.0 |