Trump tells governors to 'dominate' as he shrinks from crisis role

WASHINGTON — As dozens of American cities have recoiled with violence, anger and property damage, President Donald Trump has been silent, save for his angry Twitter finger.

“A national Oval Office address is not going to stop Antifa,” his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, told Fox News on Monday, blaming the amorphous left-wing group, which the White House has also sought to blame for violent protests, for the president’s absence from the public stage.

As strong as the nation’s divisions have been under Trump, there has been rare agreement on the point McEnany implicitly endorsed: Neither on the left nor the right are there many who believe Trump could deliver the kind of healing address to the country that most presidents try to muster in times of national fissure.

“There’s an overwhelming body of evidence out there about how incapable most Americans think he is of handling a moment like this, someone whose whole entire political predicate was based on division,” said Cornell Belcher, formerly a pollster for Barack Obama. “How, in a moment when we need a unified voice, can he step in and lead? He can’t.”

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