The President had his own meaning of authority at the forefront of his thoughts for a great part of the end of the week. In one stunning second, he expressed gratitude toward “incredible individuals” in a Florida retirement network for their help, retweeting a video demonstrating a man in a golf court decorated with “Trump” pennants reciting “white power.” Trump later erased the retweet with one of his representatives, Judd Deere, demanding that he “didn’t hear the one explanation made on the video.” Earlier, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the main Black Republican congressperson, said that the video was hostile and “indefensible.” 

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