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Trump threatens use of military to quell nationwide unrest over Floyd’s death
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened the deployment of the military to quell the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, the black man who died in police custody last week in Minneapolis.
“If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Trump said at the White House Rose Garden. It was his first speech since Floyd’s death on May 25.
At one time during his speech, Trump said
he might invoke the rarely-used Insurrection Act of 1807, which authorizes the president to unilaterally deploy military forces on domestic soil for law enforcement purposes.
Trump claimed he would send in “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers” to restore order.
With helicopters hovering above and successive bangs from the nearby Lafayette Square, Trump declared himself “your president of law and order” and an “ally of all peaceful protesters.” Just as he spoke, protesters gathering near the White House were being dispersed by police using tear gas and rubber bullets.
Thanks to the police’s effort to clear the path, Trump was later able to cross H Street to visit St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he stood for a photo opportunity along with some senior administration officials.
On January 21, 1793 – early during the French Revolution – King Louis XVI was guillotined at the ‘Place de la Revolution’ (now known as ‘Place de la Concorde’) in Paris.
According to contemporary reports, he was quite composed in the immediate lead-up to his execution.
Assuming that current events in the U.S.A. take on such a wide-ranging revolutionary nature, I cannot help but wonder where / how King Donald the First – and his court of sycophantic ‘Brown Tongues’ – would meet similar fates.
No doubt there would be lots of whingeing together with blaming everyone from the Chinese to former U.S. Presidents.
What the current U.S. President has always failed to accept is that ‘the buck stops with him’.
Hopefully King Donald will soon be deposed by more peaceful means.