‘Our President is threatening to order the military to shoot Americans. Enough is enough’
The talk show host shared his thoughts on Floyd’s tragic death, after a police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on the US man’s neck for eight minutes while he cried out: ‘I can’t breathe’.after Floyd’s death, while President Trump caused widespread outrage by tweeting: ‘These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen.
Jimmy explained in a video: ‘Unfortunately, this is the loop we get stuck in: It goes from “it isn’t right to kill an unarmed man” to “it also isn’t right to loot and set fires and attack the police, too.”‘He added: ‘Last night there were senseless acts of violence that were brought on by a senseless act of violence. And it just keeps going in a loop.‘So last night, the anger is getting more intense. The police are gone. Fire trucks can’t even get to the area to stop the flames.
Reading out Trump’s tweet, Jimmy continued: ‘Our President is threatening to order the military to shoot Americans. Specifically black Americans.‘And then of course today, as he often does when he says something idiotic, he tried to reel that in. He claimed he was saying he didn’t want that to happen. It was a warning, not a warning warning. But a warning. The sad thing about how much he lies is, he isn’t even good at it.
‘I don’t want to make this about Donald Trump. Because this sense of hopelessness and frustration that black people in this country have been experiencing has been brewing for a long time,’ he said.
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