Donald Trump Shares Video of Supporters Shouting "White Power," Calls Them "Great People"
Donald Trump shared a video on his Twitter page which shows one of his supporters shouting “white power” in The Villages, a Florida retirement community. He wrote, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!” (This is reminiscent of Trump’s characterization of the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville for Unite the Right as “very fine people”).
The man in the video pictured chanting “white power” is driving a golf cart with two signs on the front. The first reads “Trump 2020” and the second reads “America First.”
“America First” is a slogan Trump re-introduced to the country during his 2016 presidential campaign. Its origins go back to the 1930s movement of Nazi-sympathizing Americans who objected to the United States entering WWII. The contemporary America First movement, inspired by Donald Trump’s re-popularization of the term, is a far-right extremist movement associated with Holocaust deniers like Nick Fuentes, and xenophobic and antisemitic public figures like Michelle Malkin.
Trump deleted the tweet several hours later. White House spokesman Judd Dere claimed Trump “did not hear” the chants of “white power.” Dere’s statement did not include a condemnation of the chants; only a denial that Trump was aware of them when he shared the video.