Trump says he hopes George Floyd 'looking down' and seeing today's jobs numbers as 'a great day for

[Native]

Source: Independent.co.uk

Donald Trump says he hopes George Floyd, who was killed by police on Memorial Day after an officer forced his knee on the back of his neck for nearly nine minutes while facing the ground in handcuffs, is "looking down right now" and saying today is a "great thing that's happening for our country" as the nation's unemployment rate declined but remains higher than during the Great Recession.

The president said: "Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying, 'This is a great thing that's happening for our country. It's a great day for him, it's a great day for everybody. It's a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day."

Asked how the rate of unemployment among black Americans can be considered a "victory" as it continues to increase, the president told a reporter outside the White House, "You are really something."

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-george-floyd-press-conference-today-job-numbers-a9551426.html

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UPDATE: The reporter asking the question was Yamiche Alcindor of PBS.

Note: The unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up 16.8% in the May jobs report, while the unemployment rate for whites went down. The unemployment rate also went up for Asian Americans to 15%.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-unemployment-rate-black-asian-coronavirus-1508940

[empedocles]

1. Sickening

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. This is a great illustration of how Trumpy-boy is completely divorced from reality. n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

50. I think Reality just got fed up with Fat Donnie, packed her bags and walked out.

She'll file for divorce later.

[lagomorph777]

61. I think those numbers are divorced from reality.

How long will it take investigative journalists to discover that the books were cooked?

[Jirel]

3. Jesus. Effing. Christ.

There is no depravity too great for him.

[lastlib]

4. What a disgusting tone-deaf son of a bitch!!

Fuck this worthless trainload of shit with a hot pitchfork. Sideways.

[flibbitygiblets]

5. It's a "great day" for the man who was murdered by police last week? Really, Bunker Baby?

I don't think this is going to go over well.

[jstephenj]

36. The tweet isn't for the Floyd family, black Americans, or progressives.

It's directed to his base and independents to allay them of guilt in supporting him.

[JudyM]

65. Astute comment. Welcome to DU, jstephenj!

[Botany]

6. Every time you think Trump can't go lower he does

I want to scream and cry.

[lagomorph777]

66. Meanwhile, Reagan is looking up from Hell and shaking his head in admiration.

Turd has accomplished what Ray-gun could only dream of.

[Botany]

72. But good old "Dutch Reagan" laid the ground work for much of this mess with his getting rid of ...

... the fairness doctrine and for 2.5 generations millions of Americans have been bathed in
misinformation such as Fox News.

[Blue_Tires]

77. there is no bottom

[cayugafalls]

7. Answer the question, Mr. Resident.

What a piece of work he is...please resign.

[still_one]

8. About as tone deaf as the alleged Marie Antoinette quote, "let them eat cake"

This piece of garbage has to be removed in November

[AZ8theist]

9. This has to be fake news...

No ACTUAL HUMAN BEING could be this sooooo FUCKING IMBECILIC and NARCISSIST...

Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. The DUMBEST MOTHERFUCKER ON THE FUCKING PLANET said this....

Now makes perfect sense.

I weep for my country.

[forgotmylogin]

10. I've had to stop myself from face-palming this past month.

I'm gonna break my own nose.

[ms liberty]

19. Really. I didn't know you could bruise your forehead from it! n/t

[forgotmylogin]

21. I totally didn't either!

Of course I'm speaking in hyperbole, but it's counterproductive to feign disbelief about this administration anymore.

[RandySF]

11. JFC

[C_U_L8R]

12. Awful.

Go away Trump.

[SledDriver]

13. He really has no clue

[yaesu]

14. the stimulus, over 8 trillion that has been pumped into fraud street so far, is all the fascists

care about. The unemployment numbers are just more propaganda that anyone on their right mind wouldn't believe.

[DemoTex]

15. I'm sorry, but there is only one word left in my vocabulary for Trump:

Motherfucker.

[The_Counsel]

16. Just When You Think That Idiot Couldn't Possibly Be More Tone Deaf, He Just Keeps on Talking!!

[LiberalArkie]

17. Chart

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Delusional wanderings of a sick mind

[ms liberty]

20. Someone needs to save this clip for the general. n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

22. The rich looting our treasury, and the RW judges packing the courts, pause and say:

"Yea, Mister Trump, keep 'em pissed off while we go on skulking behind the scenes."

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Trump is a full-blown sociopath, and a stupid one.

Many sociopaths learn how to pretend they're normal, but not Trump.

[iluvtennis]

24. the orange POS doughboy holds a press conf to talk about adding 2.5 million jobs. Still over 38 mil

folks are unemployed.

Where was his presser to talk over 108,000 people dead from CV-19 and the tragedy that befell George Floyd.

I so DESPISE this orange fool.

[iluvtennis]

25. the orange POS doughboy holds a press conf to talk about adding 2.5 million jobs. Still over 38 mil

folks are unemployed.

Where was his presser to talk about over 108,000 people dead from CV-19 and the tragedy that befell George Floyd.

I so DESPISE this orange fool.

[olddad65]

26. A complete and total moron.

[keithbvadu2]

27. ABSOLUTELY 'Presidential'

ABSOLUTELY 'Presidential'

Does that really need?

[onecaliberal]

28. Sick fuck

[Baitball Blogger]

29. Are you fucking kidding me?

[Dopers_Greed]

30. Is this really not a joke article?

What a sick fuck

[Nitram]

31. Sickening.

[Mme. Defarge]

33. And they all went to the seashore.

(Never on Sunday)

[SergeStorms]

34. Not a great day for George Floyd.

What an insensitive, unthinking doorknob that asshat is. Does he ever think before he opens that sewer hole of a mouth?

[Stuart G]

35. Thanks for posting.K and R..Clearly the "stupidest thing" Trump has ever said in my opinion

[Stuart G]

37. Not only is this stupid, it also proves that Trump is an embarrassment to the U.S.

[Doodley]

38. More Trump projection. He thinks it is a great day for him and his re-election chances.

[greenjar_01]

39. Honestly, what is wrong with this guy?

How are his followers not humiliated by these kinds of bizarre and completely ludicrous performances. This is not how healthy people think or behave. Yeesh.

[Lucky Luciano]

40. Oh come on! How the fuck is this not satire?

[padah513]

48. I know right?

I always look for the Onion or Borowitz at the bottom of the post.

[Miguelito Loveless]

41. Calling it now...

If the Republic survives and we are free from this criminal this time next year, we will discover the numbers are lies.

[George II]

42. Unbelievable how out of touch he is about everything going on in this world and country...

And the idiots in the rose garden clapped for his comments!

[gembaby1]

43. Shut up Trump..as if George Floyd would give a shit.

Stop taking credit for something you had nothing to do with. It’s probably true that many people got their job back in the United States and in Canada in May, but this doesn’t reflect on the black community. They are still struggling. And the country at large is still dealing with appalling unemployment numbers.

[agingdem]

44. then let's keep it going

the Holocaust was a "great day" for Jews...Tiananmen Square Massacre was a "great day" for the Chinese...The Long Walk of the Navajo was a "great day' for Native Americans...The Elaine Massacre was a "great day" for Black Americans..The Pulse Night Club Massacre was a "great day' for hispanics and gays...

why don't we celebrate other great days...Babies in Cages Day...Muslim Ban Day...El Paso Walmart Domestic Terrorist Attack Day..Parkland Shooting Day...Sandy Hook Shooting Day..Pandemic Day..

I will personally start a gofundme to the first reporter that asks Trump..."It's a given that you are a depraved narcissistic sociopath..my question is this: because you are solely responsible for 109,000 needless deaths and teargassing and smoke bombing peaceful protesters why the fuck are you still allowed to walk this earth instead of locked up in a prison for the criminally insane, sir?"

[TomCADem]

45. Over 13 Percent Unemployment? Under Obama It Never Dipped Over 11 Percent...

...even at the start of his Presidency in the height of the Great Recession.

[progree]

74. The BLS says would be about 16.3% except for some classification errors

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1116&pid=88504

[flibbitygiblets]

46. I hope that RUMP is looking down at the giant BLACK LIVES MATTER sign painted on DC street today

and I hope that Mr. Floyd's family will denounce this opportunistic use of their murdered loved one as a prop by a racist president.

[Lulu KC]

47. Seriously crazier every day

So many layers of crazy

[Paladin]

49. Fuck you where you breathe, trump. (nt)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

51. See?

We should stop thinking he will ever be normal. In fact, as has been said many times, asking how much worse it can get is seen as a personal challenge to him...………..

[Texin]

53. What sick fucks he and his destined-for-hell MAGATs are.

[Native]

54. I count 19 fucks so far in this thread. That's some nice fucking outrage!

[yellowcanine]

68. Pretty good for people who have no more fucks to give.

[Native]

70. I've been waiting for this response! Thank you.

[Evolve Dammit]

55. full blown sociopath and full press toward dick tator. Impeach Barr and Trump now.

[tinrobot]

56. He's doing it on purpose. Just like the remark about McCain getting captured.

When someone is held up as an icon and that is used against him, he attacks in the most controversial way possible.

It is his way of both deflecting the threat and getting attention.

[demmiblue]

57. That.is.so.fucked.up.

[CrispyQ]

58. He is a bottomless pit of indecency.

[BusyBeingBest]

59. Yeah, I'm sure that's what he'd say.

[mcar]

60. Get the net

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213548410

[pazzyanne]

62. Now he remembers George Floyd...

… when it decorates his campaign plan. He just keeps going lower, and lower, and lower etc.

[Initech]

63. Shut the fuck up Donny!!!

[PSPS]

64. Why doesn't he just posthumously award george a MAGA hat?

[yellowcanine]

67. Trump has done a lot of despicable things but even by his low standards this is wretched.

Defend THIS, Jerry Falwell Jr.!

[LeftInTX]

69. Will TX Gov Abbott say Trump should resign? He said that about a GOP party chair...

I don't think so.

[IcyPeas]

71. wondering if someone wrote that line for him or is it an original

[progree]

73. The black and white unemployment rate data series

# Black unemployment rate https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006
First 5 months of 2020: 6.0, 5.8, 6.7, 16.7, 16.8   Trump: "what have you got to lose?"


# White unemployment rate https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000003
First 5 months of 2020: 3.1, 3.1, 4.0, 14.2, 12.4

[Brainfodder]

75. DUMB dumb dumb DUMB dumb?

[cstanleytech]

76. Looks like Trump has decided to go from scraping the bottom of the barrel to going for what was

under said barrel.