WH Signals Trump Won’t Give Oval Office Address, Says It’s ‘Not Going To Stop Antifa’

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday morning seemed to reject the possibility of President Donald Trump giving a formal Oval Office address on the nationwide unrest over George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota last week.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311855
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I’m anti-fascist, guess I’m ANTIFA.

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I have a feeling we are going to set the mold for the campaign going forward. Biden is going to be make a televised speech addressing the protests and Trump’s inaction, Trump is going to have a meeting with some governors and security people, and start tweeting that he wants the military taking action (or something equally insane).

The contrast is going to be enormous, and will likely become the framing for both through November.

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LoL the WH just called everyone that’s not a Nazi or a racist Antifa.

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WTF.

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When the occupant can’t read it’s hard to pull off an “address,” however wooden and insincere. Moreover, as has been pointed out, there’s the very real fear that he’ll start riffing.

In short, having the arsonist supervise the dousing of the fire is simply not that great of an idea.

Also, only fascists are anti- anti-fascist.

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Yeah they’re finally getting it: it’s not an actual human they’re trying to keep under wraps in there. It’s something else, and they can’t risk putting it in front of a camera for more than a few secs.

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I think you meant: only fascists are anti-anti-fascist.

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Thanks. That’s what I originally wrote but for some reason it just didn’t look right. I’ve fixed it. Thanks again for pointing it out.

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But her emails…

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Lol I had to read it a couple times too before I realized the mistake, I kept pausing to think: but I’m anti-fascist! You’re absolutely correct, it doesn’t look right when it’s written proper to me either.

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The term Antifa is so amorphous that you could be including the brave soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy as well
as those who liberated the death camps.

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Sitting right next to me is a photo of my FIL. In US Army uniform. In Bavaria, 1945. He landed in Normandy, near dusk, June 6, 1944. He walked through Europe.

He was Antifa.

(And all Trumps stayed in NYC)

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Yeah. Because stopping antifa is really what sane people are worried about.

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Not a fear, a reality. Trump doesn’t want to give a call for unity and calm, because he doesn’t feel it. He is angry and, especially after the “bunker boy” story, is FILLED with grievance. There is simply no way in hell that they could keep him on a tight enough leash to stay on message…something he positively hates doing in the best of times.

Just look to Charlottesville for a prime example. Trump had no personal skin in that situation. And yet, despite having “adults” in the room, they simply could not keep him on message. No matter how many times they put him in front of the mic. He hated it, he pouted, and he kept riffing on his own to vent his grievance.

Any speech he does today, will be about 1000x times worse.

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It didn’t stop the Illuminati or the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn! Why would it stop Antifa!?

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But here’s the thing, Ainsley: A national Oval Office address is not going to stop antifa,”

For once she speaks truth. It also won’t stop profa.

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They must have been so deliriously happy when it occurred to one of them that they could blame “antifa” for the unrest. It can’t be that it’s time to change; it has to be that nefarious forces against the President are arrayed against him. Two weeks ago we were hearing that “groups” were using the virus to overthrow the President; now it’s “antifa”.
Pssttt…it is only tangentially about your idiot boss. He’s part of the problem, but not the whole thing.

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I! am Antifa!

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Fred Trump actually looted from the War department as well as post war veterans housing programs.

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