The Real Truth About Trump's "White Power" Tweet
June 28, 2020 2:40pm
The so-called "news" media has been enthusiastically reporting all day that President Trump retweeted a "White Power" video, which he later deleted.
The media's narrative of this story has been that Trump tweeted it because he's a white supremacist who supports the message of the "White Power" chant. But do you know what has been missing from nearly every story? The offensive video itself!
Have you seen it? Probably not. Instead, the propaganda press has been describing six seconds of the video and reporting negative comments made by Trump's critics, in which Trump is portrayed as being a racist. A few media outlets played the six second portion of the video that contained the "White Power" chant. But the entire video was 128 seconds.
Because I have been in the media for forty years and know how the news business works, I suspected the video was not nearly as racist as the activists posing as journalists claimed it to be. So I searched for the full video myself and found it was extremely difficult to locate. Neither Google nor YouTube searches yielded any results. Only after discovering that Trump retweeted the video from an account named "Fifty Shades of Whey" and searching for that account on Twitter, did I find the full video he tweeted.
So what did the video say?
WARNING: The following contains language some may find offensive, so don't read any further if you are an overly sensitive wuss.
The news story could just as easily been, "Trump Tweets Video Saying FUCK TRUMP!"
Approximately six seconds of the video taken on June 14th at The Villages in Florida during a pro-Trump golf cart parade (seriously) consists of a man in a "Veterans for Trump" t-shirt driving a golf cart yelling "White Power!" twice in response to a protester shouting to him, "Where's your white hood? Where's your white hood? Racist! Racist!" The protester responded with, "There you go. White Power. Did you hear that?"
But the other two minutes of the video contains the following from the protesters (in order of appearance):
"Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump!"
"Get back in your cart, asshole! Get back in your cart, asshole!"
"We don't need fucking Nazi pigs!"
"You're a Nazi!"
"You little turd. You fucking turd!"
"You know you're a fucking Nazi. Nazi, racist, pig! That's what you are. Nazi, racist, pig!"
"Where's your white hood? Where's your white hood? Where's your white hood?"
"Grab 'em by the pussy! Grab 'em by the pussy!"
"White trash! White trash!"
"Nazi! Nazi lovers! Nazi lovers!"
"Where's your white hood?"
"Trump sucks!"
Numerous signs held by protesters read, "MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN," "TRUMP BIGOT AND RACIST," "BIGOTS/RACIEST FLY TRUMP FLAGS" [that is the exact spelling on the sign at the 1:22 point in the video], "DONALD J TRUMP DUMB AS A ROCK,""Trump PATHOLOGICAL LIAR," "WHITE TRASH," and "HITLER AND TRUMP EXACTLY SAME."
Now that you've read this, your understanding of what happened is quite different than it previously was, right?
There is good reason a witness at trial swears to tell the truth, THE WHOLE TRUTH, and nothing but the truth." A partial truth can be deceptive. In this instance, the whole truth is quite different than the partial truth the so-called "news" media spoon-fed the dumb masses [read those two words together quickly]. Sure, Trump was an idiot for retweeting it. My guess is that he didn't hear or notice the "White Power" chant when he retweeted it at 4:39am. If he was still in the residence quarters, his sound may have been muted. But if he didn't know what the video said and retweeted it anyway, that's even worse.
Trump is his own worst enemy. His unforced errors are too numerous to count. The man needs someone to censor his social media account - but I don't mean the Stalinist censors at Twitter and Facebook (who should not censor any content). As has been the procedure until Trump's presidency, The White House has a communications team that clears messages before releasing them. Trump would be wise to resume that.
But the media is guilty also. Their dishonest coverage of this non-issue has been disgraceful - or so it seems to me. But unlike most in the media, I have given you the full story, so you can make up your own mind. I posted the full video above. Decide for yourself what it means. Don’t ever accept what Big Media wants to spoon-feed you.