@NYCMayor De Blasio painting Black Lives Matter out front of Trump Tower … #BLM #NYC pic.twitter.com/ngvIxE5Lkv
— InstantMedia (@MediaIndustria1) July 9, 2020
New York City’s über-liberal mayor Bill de Blasio, helped paint a Black Lives Matter mural outside of the Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue today.
President Trump slammed de Blasio in a tweet saying that he was painting a “symbol of hate” on one of NYC’s greatest streets.
Flanked by Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil rights figures, de Blasio seems to be think this made for a powerful photo op. But as the National Review pointed, exercises like this only serve to debase our politics even more:
“There is no purpose to this exercise (and it’s a waste of public money) except to annoy a president – whose support Bill de Blasio would love to get for a bailout to cover his massive budget gap and other kinds of funding,” they wrote. “Like him or not, President Trump does exercise some power, perhaps even for four more years. Why go out of your way to be personally obnoxious to a fellow public official? This exercise makes de Blasio look even less mature than Trump. At least Trump doesn’t paint his tweets on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Meanwhile in New York City, crime statistics are spiking:
NYC crime stats for June 2020 compared to June 2019 per @NYPDnews
–130% increase in shooting incidents (205⬅️89)
–30% increase in murders (39⬅️30)
–118% increase in burglaries (1,783⬅️817)
–51% increase in auto thefts (696⬅️462)https://t.co/6kFteynawM— Travis Fedschun (@travfed) July 6, 2020
President Trump slammed de Blasio in a tweet, accusing him of painting a “symbol of hate” on one of NYC”s “greatest streets”, and called on police to stand up to the mayor and not let it happen.
de Blasio managed to arrange what he probably felt was a ‘powerful’ photo op, flanked by Al Sharpton and group of black luminaries and volunteers.