Trump Defends Teenager Who Confronted Native American

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The video of a young man facing an elderly Native American during a demonstration held last Friday in the city of Washington, DC, continues to give to speak, much more after President Donald Trump came out in defense of the teenager and your peer group.

In the first images and reports disseminated through various media, it was claimed that Nick Sandmann, a student at a private Catholic school in the state of Kentucky, had confronted Nathan Phillips, an activist from the Omaha tribe, in what was cataloged by multiple Network users as an act of disrespect against the old man, who is also a war veteran of the United States Army.

The tense moment captured the attention of the American president and took sides in the situation defending the young student protagonist of the controversy, who has also assured that since the appearance of the images on social networks he and his family have received criticism of all kinds and even threats of death.

"It seems that Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington Catholic have been unfairly treated with trials that turned out to be false and tainted by the media," the president said on Twitter after new videos and images of what happened were revealed.

New recordings of the incident showed how the young students, who wore caps with the popular Trump presidential campaign catchphrase "Make America Great Again" and who traveled to Washington to participate in the March for Life protest, were having an argument with a small group of Hebrew Afro-descendant Israelites near the renowned Lincoln Memorial.

It was then that Phillips and a group of Native Americans, who participated in the Indigenous Peoples March, entered the scene playing drums and performing traditional indigenous songs with the intention of helping to disperse the tense moment that was lived between the students and the members of the group. Hebrew.

According to the versions delivered by both Sandmann and Phillips to the media, the two have expressed that they feel they have been victims of the situation. The student assured that the native was the one who confronted him and tried to intimidate him. For his part, the indigenous man also said that it was the young man who tried to frighten him with his defiant attitude, which he called disrespectful against a war veteran.

Despite the fact that the new videos that have been revealed of the incident do not clarify if there was aggression or provocation on the part of any of the two individuals involved, President Trump seems to have taken sides in the situation and added more in defense of the student.

“Nick Sandmann and the students at Covington have become a symbol of fake news and how Terrible it can be. They have stolen the attention of the world and now they can use it for good, even to unite people. Something that did not start in the best way can end in a dream,”he wrote on Twitter.

After the young man pointed out Phillips as the aggressor in his statements, the Native American responded assuring that the school must retaliate against the student, his classmates and teachers involved in the situation. "Today I saw what Mr. Sandmann said and how he is trying to make me look like the culprit, I think he needs some kind of training on cultural sensitivity," said the activist and member of the Omaha tribe.