# June 5, 2020 - Trump says this is a GREAT DAY for George Floyd... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 5, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106 "2020-06-05T16:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/1 "2020-06-05T16:39:18Z")
You would think that someone who was - clinically - as unintelligent as Trump would just let the speech writers simply write words for him to parrot. But the only thing that surpasses his low IQ and is ability to pathologically lie about anything (important or not) is his arrogance that allows him to go offscript and believe he is even in the stratosphere of former POTUS and their orator skills. Trump, you are no Obama, Reagan, Clinton or Kennedy… you are a clown. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/2 "2020-06-05T16:56:42Z")
Well, at least he’s nobody’s puppet. Even Puppetmeister Vlad struggles to maintain control over him. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/3 "2020-06-05T17:13:25Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, at least he’s nobody’s puppet. More of a wind-up toy. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/4 "2020-06-05T17:13:31Z")
And an even better day for the 108k (and counting) CV people who died? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/5 "2020-06-05T17:34:40Z")
In case you hadn’t noticed, Trump is not a POTUS in any traditional sense: he is a conman and a showman. As a conman, his concern is telling people what he thinks they want to hear. As a showman, his concern is saying things that are provocative and self-aggrandizing. He has no motivation to care about whether his words are true, fair, or helpful. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/6 "2020-06-05T17:42:23Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > In case you hadn’t noticed, Trump is not a POTUS in any traditional sense: he is a conman and a showman. As a conman, his concern is telling people what he thinks they want to hear. As a showman, his concern is saying things that are provocative and self-aggrandizing. He has no motivation to care about whether his words are true, fair, or helpful. Outstanding summary of Trump. Have we had any other Presidents like him? I know Bush the Lesser had many similarities to Harding but Trump really seems fairly unique. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/7 "2020-06-05T18:41:30Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > In case you hadn’t noticed, Trump is not a POTUS in any traditional sense: he is a conman and a showman. As a conman, his concern is telling people what he thinks they want to hear. As a showman, his concern is saying things that are provocative and self-aggrandizing. He has no motivation to care about whether his words are true, fair, or helpful. This is what I’ve been stressing about Trump here for nearly five years, and it’s the real problem. When he was first running, and throughout most of this term, the press and others (including many here) would mostly just wring their hands about Trump’s racism, sexism, etc. – about his meanness. Of course, that was exactly what he wanted and needed to get elected. That was his deliberate “showmanship,” provoking and self-aggrandizing designed precisely to appeal to his base. Everyone seemed to think that pointing out how mean he was would prevent his election, but it only helped him to get elected. Meanwhile, he and his butt-licking cronies are corrupting the whole administration. From the start, the emphasis should have been entirely on how much of a bullshitting fraud he is. Yeah, we all know he’s a racist bigot, but just focusing on that doesn’t do anything, it only helps him. He’s constantly distracting for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/8 "2020-06-05T18:52:56Z")
The only silver lining in all of this is that i am 100 percent sure that the history books are going to shit all over his name and my kids and grandkids will know what a horrible human being he was. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/9 "2020-06-05T18:56:27Z")
> [@chargerrich](#): > > The only silver lining in all of this is that i am 100 percent sure that the history books are going to shit all over his name and my kids and grandkids will know what a horrible human being he was. Yes, once he’s out of office I imagine we’ll be hearing all sorts of horror stories from people not willing to speak up now. (although the horror of these years is already pretty well documented) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/10 "2020-06-05T19:05:09Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > In case you hadn’t noticed, Trump is not a POTUS in any traditional sense: he is a conman and a showman. As a conman, his concern is telling people what he thinks they want to hear. As a showman, his concern is saying things that are provocative and self-aggrandizing. He has no motivation to care about whether his words are true, fair, or helpful. Trump was never a great conman. His specialty was finding the proverbial “some people you can fool all of the time” and then fooling them. Everyone else just ignored Trump as an obvious blowhard. That worked when he was a private citizen. But now that he’s Presidency, he’s finding his usual bullshit doesn’t work anymore. Sure he still has his base of people that will believe anything and he loves that. (He doesn’t love the people in his base. He’s just loves their devotion to him.) But the rest of us are no longer able to ignore him. Now we pay attention to what he says and call him on it when he says something that’s stupid or untrue. Trump can’t handle this amount of criticism. He’s never had to before. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/11 "2020-06-05T19:08:00Z")
> [@chargerrich](#): > > The only silver lining in all of this is that i am 100 percent sure that the history books are going to shit all over his name and my kids and grandkids will know what a horrible human being he was. Yes, if Trump had never run for President, he would have been vaguely remembered as a businessman who was apparently successful. Now he will be remembered by history but he will be remembered as a colossal failure. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/12 "2020-06-05T19:08:28Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Yes, once he’s out of office I imagine we’ll be hearing all sorts of horror stories from people not willing to speak up now. (although the horror of these years is already pretty well documented) I am just SALIVATING for the tell-all books. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/13 "2020-06-05T19:10:17Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Yes, once he’s out of office I imagine we’ll be hearing all sorts of horror stories from people not willing to speak up now. (although the horror of these years is already pretty well documented) There are probably some people in the White House who are only sticking around right now so they’ll be able to cash in next year by writing a “Final Days” book. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/14 "2020-06-05T19:22:31Z")
shocking that Trump thinks there are black people in Heaven ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/15 "2020-06-05T19:24:27Z")
I hadn’t heard this particular bit of idiocy, so here’s a link: > **['We will not be silent': protests head into second weekend after George...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jun/05/george-floyd-protests-donald-trump-hydroxychloroquine-live)** > > NFL says it was wrong not to let players protest police brutality ‘Trump sparked outrage by saying this was a “great day” for George Floyd, who was killed in police custody last week. During a White House event where the president boasted about the country’s job gains and downplayed the protests continuing across the country, Trump said, “Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying, ‘This is a great thing that’s happening for our country.’ This is a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody.”’ Wow … unemployment is only 13.3%, communities are still cleaning up from recent riots, and it’s a great day for everybody? Mr. Trump, you are a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/16 "2020-06-05T19:25:48Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > I am just SALIVATING for the tell-all books. If/When Trump loses in the fall, the sheer amount of GOP public “distancing” from Trump and the attempts at rewrting their own narrative will be comical\*. - provided it is not overshadowed by the images of the SS having to physically remove Trump from office amid his scream of conspiracies, fakenews and a call to his racist extremists to revolt (and i am only about 75% kidding here) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/17 "2020-06-05T19:29:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There are probably some people in the White House who are only sticking around right now so they’ll be able to cash in next year by writing a “Final Days” book. IF, and it is still only an if, Trump loses the election, Republican party stalwarts will turn on him so fast it will be a blur. Particularly if he loses decisively and takes a few more House and Senate seats down with him. The never-Trumpers will come hurtling out of closets, multiplying retroactively and the recriminations will be loud, harsh and lengthy. His base may not be happy but the R establishment will all but hang him in effigy. They might still defend him against any legal action but his political legacy, such as it is, will be toast. Trump is not a popular man among the movers and shakers in either party. Ranks have closed around him, but that’s about it. He’ll have few if any “friends” and defenders that aren’t bought in the aftermath. If he loses. If he wins again it becomes a more complicated legacy. Despised but a winner still has cachet. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/18 "2020-06-05T19:31:29Z")
In a [nutshell](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/one-week-save-democracy/612718/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+TheAtlantic+%2528The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%2529). > [@](#): > > In America’s house divided, racism—its structures and its individual acts—is tearing us apart in what feel like irreparable ways. On top of that, more than 106,000 Americans are dead from a virus that’s still raging, nearly 40 million others are unemployed, and hundreds of businesses as well as police buildings and vehicles are burning in American cities. As small but violent groups peddle conspiracy theories and wish for some kind of civil war, the country’s civic bonds are threatening to unravel. > > At the heart of the protests over the recent police killings that have swept the nation is Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump’s depraved rhetoric, his vile racism, his willful ignorance, his vicious contempt for the free press, his extraordinary mishandling of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his preening with a Bible while trying to militarize Washington, D.C., are the template on which incidents such as those in Minneapolis; Louisville, Kentucky; Brunswick, Georgia; and New York City’s Central Park have exploded into public consciousness. Authoritarians thrive on chaos and on sowing distrust in institutions, and Trump has done both. > … Ya can’t say he’s not thorough. He’s got every crime and destructive act against the country and its citizens covered. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/19 "2020-06-05T19:34:20Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > IF, and it is still only an if, Trump loses the election, Republican party stalwarts will turn on him so fast it will be a blur. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if and when we see right-leaning media starting to refer to him as “longtime Democrat Donald Trump”, we’ll know he is permanently down the golden toilet. Another thing about Trump is that he has always had a reputation for being dictatorial and unlikable with underlings, unlike some other Republican Presidents such as the Bushes. I’m betting we are not going to see any warmly appreciative memoirs from White House staff or staffers saying gosh, yes, he did a lot of controversial things policy-wise but was such a warm and wonderful human being. ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/20 "2020-06-05T19:54:26Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > shocking that Trump thinks there are black people in Heaven +1 😃 funniest thing I have read today… well done sir! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106.md?page=2)