With the sound of flash bang explosions and tear gas being fired in the background, President Donald Trump spoke the words of a tyrant Monday, delivered from a teleprompter in the Rose Garden, vowing to use military force — as he was doing at that very moment to peaceful demonstrators — to put down protests across the country touched off after the death of a Black man, George Floyd, in police custody in Minneapolis.
With the sound of flash bang explosions and tear gas being fired in the background, President Donald Trump spoke the words of a tyrant Monday, delivered from a teleprompter in the Rose Garden, vowing to use military force — as he was doing at that very moment to peaceful demonstrators — to put down protests across the country touched off after the death of a Black man, George Floyd, in police custody in Minneapolis.
