New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Reverend Al Sharpton and activists painted the sloggan “Black Lives Matter” outside Trump Tower, Manhattan, July 9, 2020. – The Journal News-USA TODAY NETWO/SIPA
Donald Trump cannot miss the giant yellow letters on the pavement. The slogan “Black Lives Matter” was painted right outside Trump Tower in Manhattan on Thursday at the initiative of the city’s Democratic mayor, six weeks after George Floyd’s death. A snub to the US president, who had called “Black Lives Matter” a “symbol of hatred” after a similar operation in front of the White House in Washington last month.
It is the prestigious New York avenue which is adorned with the letters of the movement, under the gaze of many photographers and televisions. At the end of the marking, the far left mayor Bill de Blasio came to add a few touches of yellow, along with other officials including the Reverend Al Sharpton, a figure in the fight for racial justice. On July 1, the mayor explained that he wanted the Republican president to hear “three words for which he has never shown any respect. Every time he returns to what he calls his city, he is reminded that Black Lives Matter ”.
“A symbol of hatred”, according to Trump
Donald Trump did not immediately react. At the beginning of July, he had tweeted that the police should “perhaps” not allow “this symbol of hatred to be affixed on the most prestigious street in New York”. The few police officers present Thursday witnessed the operation without a word.
….horrible BLM chant, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”. Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020
The ex-New York real estate mogul lived in a triplex at the top of this skyscraper near Central Park until he left for the White House in January 2017. Since November 2019, he has been doing his complex hotelier of Mar-a-Lago, Florida, his official residence, abandoning a city largely hostile to his presidency.
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