When Trump wanted laundry mats, massage parlors, churches and liquor stores reopened in the Wolverine State, and assault-rifle-armed protestors ominously gathered in Lansing to emphasize his opinion, the president gently tweeted that "the Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again."
But when "THUGS" gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota to protest the wanton police murder of George Floyd, Trump harshly tweeted that "either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right." He famously added that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" — later explaining, in his usual disingenuous way, that he only meant that looting often turns even more violent.
Plainly, the two protests cannot be compared in attitude or purpose. But Trump's early reactions can. White Michiganders lethally armed against "that woman" were "good people"; black, mostly unarmed Minnesotans protesting tear-gassing police and one homicidal cop were "thugs" to be shot. In addition, what happened in Lansing was vividly "lawless anarchy and chaos," yet Trump applied the phrase only to the situation in Minneapolis.
Trump wanted to "LIBERATE" Michigan from the tyranny of closed floristries; in Minnesota, the tyranny of racial killings demanded a city's suppression. Adding to the surreal polarizations of Trumpworld was reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale, who blamed Twitter's fact-checking of the president for "fueling the misinformation" causing such anarchy.
Of course, neither Parscale nor Trump is really angry about the underclass chaos and Twitter-induced anarchy, since both are working out as intended. No one would have believed any Trumpian attempt at empathy for the actually oppressed, and everyone's attention is now off the 100,000 dead.