On Twitter, Donald Trump wrote on Thursday that De Blasio “wants to paint the famous and beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of the Tower / Tiffany Tower, with a phrase Black Lives Matter in big yellow letters.”
In his message, he added: “’Pigs with clothes. Fry them like Ham ‘, referring to killing policemen, is his song. The New York City police are furious. ”
But, in fact, this singing has not been frequent in protests in New York and other cities since the death of George Floyd, a month earlier, at the hands of the Minneapolis police.
New York City officials announced on Thursday that the phrase would be painted in large letters on the street in front of the skyscraper owned by Trump.
“The President is a disgrace to the values we cherish in New York City,” said Mayor de Blasio’s spokeswoman, Julia Arredondo. “He cannot run away or deny the reality we face, so whenever he wants to set foot in what he claims to be his city, it must be remembered that ‘Black Lives Matter’”.
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