Trump envisioned 'American carnage.' Now, he's got it.

WASHINGTON — Now, there's American carnage.

When Donald Trump first addressed the nation as its president on Jan. 20, 2017, he depicted the nation's cities as domestic combat zones and declared "this American carnage stops right here and stops right now."

Back then, it was hyperbole at best. But it's become reality on his watch, and with his encouragement.

More than 100,000 Americans have lost their lives, and another 40 million have lost their livelihoods, amid a coronavirus pandemic to which Trump was slow to react. Against that backdrop, cities across the country are now combustible cauldrons of fear, anger, fire and tear gas as Trump fetishizes the violence.

Since the police killing of George Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis earlier this week, Trump has largely thrown rhetorical Molotov cocktails over the front lines of the national uprising from the safety of his White House bunker.

In other words, the president met protests against state violence with calls for more of it.

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