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On Sunday, Donald Trump retweeted a video that shows one of his supporters yelling “White power” at counterprotesters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Trump called backers who had gathered at a Florida retirement home “great people.” That tweet has since been deleted.
According to a White House spokesman, the impeached president did not hear what the White supremacist shouted on the video before tweeting it out. However, the alleged misstep does little to help an image already plagued by numerous and persistent instances of racism.
On Sunday morning, Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and denounced Trump’s actions saying, “There’s no question: He should not have retweeted it; he should just take it down.” He also called the tweet “indefensible.”
On Sunday, Donald Trump tweeted in support of the men and women who gathered to cheer on his 2020 reelection. In the clip, one of his supporters shouts “White power.”
Twitter sleuths identified the man in the video as a retired Miami firefighter Roger Stokes. According to the local news outlet, the video was taken of him and other supporters at The Villages retirement home in Florida on June 14. The video accompanied a story about the Villagers for Trump golf cart rally that took place in The Villages to celebrate Trump’s birthday.
The white supremacist racist in this clip shouting ‘White power’ is a retired @CityofMiamiFire firefighter, named Roger Stokes.I call on the Miami Fire Department, @MiamiDadeFire + @IAFFLOCAL587 to denounce Roger Stokes and these indefensible comments.
pic.twitter.com/wQEVCAozjR
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) June 28, 2020
Sharon Sandler, a Democrat who spoke to the Village News, described the Trump supporters in the retirement community as a “cult” and suggested that a number of the people who took part in the golf cart rally were “Nazi lovers.” She stood in front of the cart driven by the man who shouted “White power” with a sign that characterized Trump as a “bigot and racist.”
On Twitter, Trump showed real enthusiasm for the people who came out to show him support, including the racist in the golf cart. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” he wrote in the caption accompanying the retweet of the video. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!”
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On Sunday, Donald Trump retweeted a video that shows one of his supporters yelling “White power” at counterprotesters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Trump called backers who had gathered at a Florida retirement home “great people.” That tweet has since been deleted.
According to a White House spokesman, the impeached president did not hear what the White supremacist shouted on the video before tweeting it out. However, the alleged misstep does little to help an image already plagued by numerous and persistent instances of racism.
On Sunday morning, Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and denounced Trump’s actions saying, “There’s no question: He should not have retweeted it; he should just take it down.” He also called the tweet “indefensible.”
On Sunday, Donald Trump tweeted in support of the men and women who gathered to cheer on his 2020 reelection. In the clip, one of his supporters shouts “White power.”Twitter sleuths identified the man in the video as a retired Miami firefighter Roger Stokes. According to the local news outlet, the video was taken of him and other supporters at The Villages retirement home in Florida on June 14. The video accompanied a story about the Villagers for Trump golf cart rally that took place in The Villages to celebrate Trump’s birthday.
The white supremacist racist in this clip shouting ‘White power’ is a retired @CityofMiamiFire firefighter, named Roger Stokes.I call on the Miami Fire Department, @MiamiDadeFire + @IAFFLOCAL587 to denounce Roger Stokes and these indefensible comments.pic.twitter.com/wQEVCAozjR
Sharon Sandler, a Democrat who spoke to the Village News, described the Trump supporters in the retirement community as a “cult” and suggested that a number of the people who took part in the golf cart rally were “Nazi lovers.” She stood in front of the cart driven by the man who shouted “White power” with a sign that characterized Trump as a “bigot and racist.”
On Twitter, Trump showed real enthusiasm for the people who came out to show him support, including the racist in the golf cart. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” he wrote in the caption accompanying the retweet of the video. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!”
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Happy Friday! How you would like to watch 43 uninterrupted minutes of two of the nicest guys in Hollywood? You can, because Chris Evans and Paul Rudd, a.k.a. Captain America and Ant-Man, recently chatted with each other for Variety’s at home Actors on Actors series. Please note that they’re both rocking some great quarantine beards in this informal talk.
Evans and Rudd recently met “virtually” from their respective homes and discussed a little bit of the everything. They of course chatted about their experiences with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Additionally they delved into Paul Rudd’s performance on Friends, embarrassing dance videos of Rudd that Evans has stored on his phone, and their new projects. That includes Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ and Living With Yourself on Netflix.
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After some playful banter resulting in Rudd bringing out Thanos’s gauntlet, they got down to it. They asked each other thoughtful questions resulting in both actors reminiscing about past projects. They also spent quite a bit of time talking about what it was like working in the MCU. Evans played Steve Rogers from 2011-2019 and Rudd played Scott Lang from 2015-2019. So, they both have a bit of history of working within the franchise.
Both Evans and Rudd are very polite to each other during the video. Neither one seemed to want to talk about himself for too long, so they kept the interview to a quick back and forth style. The interview ends with both actors saying how awful these types of interviews usually are, but doing it together made it less so. All in all, it’s a delightful interview to take you into the weekend.
And if you need a little extra oomph, you may as well watch Sir Patrick Stewart and Henry Cavill‘s installment of the Actors on Actors series.
It is equally charming.
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