Trump’s handling of the nationwide anti-racism protests and the response to George Floyd’s killing is prompting a private reckoning
“Trump is not sharing any sense of empathy at all, because that is not who he is. You cannot ask him to magically turn it, on because it is not there,” said one former senior administration official and person of color.
“You probably always could have done better with the benefit of hindsight, but I just don’t get involved in that sort of Monday morning quarterbacking,” said Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, former Ohio Secretary of State and a longtime conservative leader and Trump supporter. “I look at what the playbook is going forward.”
At the same time, Trump, his top aides and his campaign have made statements or planned events that struck critics as tone-deaf and racially insensitive. Privately, some people of color in the administration groaned at these moves while trying to stay focused on their own jobs. The president’s approach to the moment — veering between expressing sympathy for George Floyd’s death, taking a hardline stance against protests and then trying to find policy solutions on the fly — does not surprise current and former officials.
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