President Donald Trump took absolutely no questions from press reporters Friday after 3 days of intensifying nationwide protests over police violence and the death of George Floyd.

At what the White House had actually referred to as a press conference Friday afternoon, Trump checked out a declaration in the Rose Garden slamming China and stating the U.S. was “terminating” its relationship with the World Health Organization over its action to the coronavirus. The president made no reference of the protests, nor did he take any inquiries from journalism.

Previously Friday, Trump had actually tweeted about the protests in Minneapolis in action to the death of George Floyd, a Black male who pleaded “I can’t breathe” as a white policeman knelt on his neck The president called the mostly Black protesters “thugs” and threatened them with state-sanctioned violence, stating “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” (Twitter used a “glorifying violence” label to Trump’s tweet for breaking its guidelines.)

Trump later on declared to clarify his tweet, stating “looting leads to shooting,” keeping in mind there was a shooting in Minneapolis Wednesday and 7 people shot in Louisville Thursday amid protests. In Trump’s preliminary tweet, the expression– first utilized by a racist Miami police chief in the 1960 s– came after the president discussed the military was “with” Minnesota’s guv and stated, “Any difficulty and we will assume control.”

After the press conference, Trump’s 2020 campaign likewise put out a declaration blaming the media and Democrats for “purposefully misrepresenting” what Trump stated in his tweet, declaring they were doing so for “political gain” and “ratings.”

Protests, which began on Tuesday in Minneapolis, broadened nationwide on Thursday night. A few of the civil discontent resulted in a regional police precinct in Minneapolis being burned and a Target and other shops being harmed, as demonstrators continued to require the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck to be char ged (all 4 officers included have actually been fired).

On Friday afternoon, that officer, Derek Chauvin, was jailed and charged with murder and murder. The charges came 4 days after Floyd’s death and an onlooker video of Chauvin pushing his knee into Floyd’s neck went viral, and followed 3 nights of intensifying protests.

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