Obama says Trump should visit new African-American museum

Protests erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott while serving an unrelated arrest warrant, but GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to think something else helped spur the civil unrest. “It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable”.

Trump, in particular, has struggled to balance a message that appeals to his white, working-class base with one that improves his standing with minorities and educated whites who may worry about racial undertones in his candidacy. Addressing a predominately black church congregation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Trump suggested the officer involved in the Tulsa shooting “choked”, and added, “they can’t be doing what they’re doing”.

The Trump campaign later said the candidate was merely referring to reports of increases in the number of drug-related deaths.

“I don’t know what she was thinking”, Trump said.

The president made the comment in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” when he got asked about Trump’s comments.

“My hope is that, as people are seeing what’s happened in Tulsa or Charlotte on television, and perhaps are less familiar with not only the history of the African-American experience but also how recent some of these challenges have been, upon visiting the museum, may step back and say, I understand”, he continued, “I sympathize”.

Trump this month put to rest the myth he had peddled for years that Obama might have been born outside the U.S. But in the same breath, he said Clinton started it.

“I would do stop and frisk.

But there is no right to engage in violent disruption or to threaten the public safety and peace of others”, Trump said during lengthy remarks on the protests in Charlotte, which came at the beginning of a speech on energy policy.

Charlotte is only the latest American city to see outbreaks of street violence amid protests over the police killings of black men.

Mahoning County volunteer Kathy Miller told The Guardian newspaper in an article and video posted Thursday that she didn’t believe there was “any racism until (President Barack) Obama got elected”.

In Pittsburgh, Trump delineated a difference between what he called “violent disruptor [s]” and the rest of the black community.

“And then ultimately it requires, I think, all of us to search our hearts to make sure that, you know, we’re asking ourselves tough questions”.

He also accused Democrat rival Hillary Clinton of blaming the police for problems in cities in the United States. Clinton said: “I assume he’ll wear that red power tie”.

Trump said new leadership is required to address the situation. Galifianakis responded, “Or maybe like a white power tie”. “It’s a awful thing that we’re witnessing”, Trump told “Fox and Friends” during an interview.

Neither Trump nor Clinton is expected to campaign on Friday as they prepare for Monday’s inaugural debate.