Black Lives Matter founding member calls Trump ‘the embodiment of white supremacist terrorism’ in shocking attack
BLACK Lives Matter founding member Melina Abdullah has called President Trump the “embodiment of white supremacist terrorism.”
On CNN’s Newsroom Wednesday, Abdullah responded to Trump’s tweet calling a proposed Black Lives Matter sign in New York City a “symbol of hate”
“I think it’s the height of hypocrisy for Donald Trump to call anything a symbol of hate,"; said Adbullah.
"He is the embodiment of hate, and for him to say that affirming the value of black life is somehow hate, again, reminds us of who he is.”
“I think we need to remember who he is. That Donald Trump is the embodiment of white supremacist terrorism,” Abdullah added.
The BLM founding member mentioned Trump’s recent Twitter blunders of retweeting a video of people throwing up “white power” in Florida and the other showing a couple in St. Louis pointing guns at protesters.
“He’s done that not just only over the last week, but over the last four years," she said.
"And you see that really manifest in terms of the surge in hate crimes, which are primarily meted out on black people and at the hands of white people."
Abdullah placed the blame on the president for the escalating hate crimes and police brutality against Black people.
“So it’s really important to understand what Donald Trump has done to this country, and where he’s chosen to align himself,” she said.
“So for him, again, to call anything hate is really the height of hypocrisy, and, you know, we need as a country to be willing to point to him and say that he is actually the terrorist in chief.”
A stunted CNN host, Brooke Baldwin responded, “Wow. Those are strong, strong words.”
“Obviously the White House would dispute that, but you’re allowed your freedom of opinion, and the fact is that the president is highly critical of Black Lives Matter.”
Trump recently claimed in an interview he has done more for the black community than any president besides Abraham Lincoln.
Citing criminal justice reform, Trump said “nobody else could have done it" and claims to have provided long-term funding for historically black colleges.
Before the pandemic, black and Hispanic unemployment was at a .