Kenosha mayor says Trump shouldn't visit Tuesday because the community is still healing
On Monday, Kenosha, Wis., Mayor John Antaramian said he requested that President Trump not visit the city on Tuesday because it is in the process of healing after the shooting of Jacob Blake.
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JOHN ANTARAMIAN: One at a time. Thank you.
- Should the president be coming to the town--
JOHN ANTARAMIAN: I think I made-- I put my statement out early yesterday morning that I felt that the timing was wrong. We always have room for presidents to come to visit, candidates to come to visit. That's the process that you have and it's something that we appreciate and have people do.
But the timing on this, we felt was not good, and so we did make the request for him to do it at a different time.
- Mayor, why do you think that the timing is wrong?
JOHN ANTARAMIAN: I think that you have a community that's in the process of trying to heal. There's so many things that have gone on in this community, it just seemed to me and, I think, others that it would be better for us to be able to pull together, let the community get together and actually heal up the process of what's going on and start dealing with the concerns that we have that need to be addressed.
So it would have been nice if it had waited a while, a little longer down the road, but it is what it is.
- Mayor, do you feel that Kenosha is being used as a political prop?
JOHN ANTARAMIAN: I think that Kenosha, at this present time, needs peace and needs to heal and needs people to allow us to do that, and that's what I think Kenosha needs.
