Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will be starting campaign rallies shortly, as polls show his popularity declining after his criticized management of the coronavirus epidemic and the protests in the country that followed. death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Speaking to reporters at the White House, the US president also said that he would soon announce the location of his speech in August on the occasion of his Republican Party inauguration for the presidential election. November 3.
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Trump, who is eager to return to the campaign after a three-month hiatus forced by the health crisis, said his first meeting is scheduled to take place on June 19 in Tulsa, before further rallies in Florida, Texas and Arizona. The date of June 19 marks the anniversary of the emancipation, in 1865, of the last African-American slaves from the Confederate States of America. Tulsa was the scene in 1921 of attacks perpetrated by the white inhabitants of the city against black inhabitants and the businesses which they held - the "racial massacre of Tulsa" .
Kamai Marshall, a campaign spokesperson for Donald Biden, Donald Trump's Democratic rival, denounced via Twitter as "racist" the choice of Tulsa for holding a meeting.