Donald Trump on Sunday tore into Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Twitter after the mayor blamed the president for perpetuating violence in the country.
Following Wheeler’s scorching takedown of Trump’s support of white supremacists and attacks on progressives, which he believes encouraged the shooting of a protester in Portland Saturday night, the president lost it on Twitter:
“Ted Wheeler, the wacky Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Mayor (sic) of Portland, who has watched great death and destruction of his City (sic) during his tenure, thinks this lawless situation should go on forever. “Wrong! Portland will never recover with a fool for a Mayor…” Trump tweeted.
He added: “He tried mixing with the Agitators and Anarchists and they mocked him. He would like to blame me and the Federal Government for going in, but he hasn’t seen anything yet. We have only been there with a small group to defend our U.S. Courthouse, because he couldn’t do it….The people of Portland, like all other cities & parts of our great Country, want Law & Order. The Radical Left Democrat Mayors, like the dummy running Portland, or the guy right now in his basement unwilling to lead or even speak out against crime, will never be able to do it!”
Trump was presumably attacking former Vice President Joe Biden, who released a statement about the violence about an hour prior to the president’s tweets.
By May 2020, there have been at least 54 times in which the president has encouraged violence, threats and assaults. Many believe that Trump is doing so because if he stokes violence he can then claim that without him the violence will continue.
As conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin explained: “Trump is intentionally fomenting racial violence as a means of whipping up his base, a segment of which has always been motivated by white grievance. Whenever Trump is in trouble, he has resorted to xenophobia (e.g., hollering about the caravans ahead of the midterms) and racism (e.g., responding to a question about COVID-19 from an Asian American reporter with ‘Go ask China’).”
In May Trump attacked citizens protesting over the George Floyd killing as “THUGS” while suggesting, “military intervention and warning in a tweet that there could be additional violence if the chaos continued.”
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” the president wrote.
Ted Wheeler, the wacky Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Mayor of Portland, who has watched great death and destruction of his City during his tenure, thinks this lawless situation should go on forever. Wrong! Portland will never recover with a fool for a Mayor….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2020
..The people of Portland, like all other cities & parts of our great Country, want Law & Order. The Radical Left Democrat Mayors, like the dummy running Portland, or the guy right now in his basement unwilling to lead or even speak out against crime, will never be able to do it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2020
