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Trump Praises Secret Service for Protecting Him Against Rage He Helped Incite: ‘They Love It’

The president said the Secret Service loved protecting him against the rage he helped incite.

Donald Trump used Twitter to thank the Secret Service for protecting the White House on Friday night against demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. He said the unit tasked with protecting him were “not only totally professional, but very cool” as they kept protesters, who were partly fired up by his own racially insensitive comments, at bay. “I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe,” he wrote before threatening that had protesters would “have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons” if they breached the security perimeter. He bragged that officers were quickly replaced “with fresh agents, like magic” quoting one officer telling him, “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and....good practice.”

He went on to bash the D.C. mayor for not deploying D.C. police to protect the president. However, the Secret Service later said in a statement that the Metropolitan Police Department were present. Twitter concealed a tweet from Trump on Friday for “glorifying violence.” In the tweet, Trump called demonstrators “THUGS,” suggested the military should intervene, and said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”