President Trump this morning cast the release of unexpectedly encouraging unemployment statistics as a salve to the twin crises ravaging the United States
the unemployment rate had dropped to 13.3 percent in May as the “greatest comeback in American history.”But the president took his promotion of the jobs numbers a step further, describing them as a “tremendous tribute to equality” and, in an extraordinary moment, suggesting the data marked a “great day” for George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man whose killing by a Minneapolis police officer has ignited protests across all 50 states.
“We all saw what happened last week. We can’t let that happen. Hopefully, George is looking down right now, and saying, ‘This is a great thing that’s happening for our country,’” Trump said. “This is a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody. This is a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality.”
During a bill signing immediately following his meandering, roughly hour-long series of remarks, when asked about his plan to combat systemic racism, the president indicated he would seek to heal America’s centuries-old, entrenched inequities by reviving an economy that had been shuttered by an infectious outbreak.
“What’s happened to our country and what you now see, it’s been happening, is the greatest thing that can happen for race relations, for the African-American community, for the Asian-American [community], for the Hispanic-American community, for women, for everything,” Trump said. “Because our country is so strong. And that’s what my plan is.”
The president’s news conference capped a week that began with the violent dispersal of peaceful protesters outside the White House and came after he had reveled in the unemployment report earlier Friday morning.on Twitter, one of the several self-congratulatory social media posts the president issued in the minutes following its publishing.
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