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NBC News reports:
President Donald Trump blasted New York City’s plan to paint the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, calling it a “symbol of hate” and demanding the city spend the money on policing instead.
NYC officials said last week they would emulate other cities and paint the message in large letters on a prominent roadway — in this case, right in front of the president’s flagship building.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said on MSNBC Wednesday morning that the work would happen in the coming days, leading to Trump’s tweets.
As I previously mentioned, the chant Trump references below actually happened six years ago in Minneapolis, not in New York City.
NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020
….horrible BLM chant, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”. Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020
Painting Black Lives Matter on 5th Avenue offends Trump so much because he believes that the “luxury Avenue” belongs to white people and the top 1%. He didn’t spend all those years denying fair housing to African Americans and falsely accusing the Central Park 5 of rape for this.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) July 1, 2020
It’s like he could paint “Black Lives Matter” right in front of your trashy, piece-of-shit building in broad daylight on 5th Avenue” and not even lose any votes.
*Chock* on that, Spanky.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 1, 2020
why should a Black Lives Matter sign antagonize police? the only people antagonized by Black Lives Matter signs are racists. are you implying that NYPD cops are racist? you didn’t really think this tweet out, did you
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 1, 2020