NEW: Multiple White House officials are asserting privately that they are frustrated over Pres. Trump’s latest embrace of a message stoking racial and cultural divisions. The president is “going with his gut” and “relying on instinct,” two officials say.
likely to further inflame civic unrest seen across the country over the past month and deliver political wins by rallying his supporters.A second White House official said Trump is making a mistake by stoking racial divisions and continuing to revive the kind of grievances he also aired in 2016, when he stoked racial animosity targeting immigrants. This official says the president’s attack lines no longer have the same resonance as they did four years ago.
As a result, he’s tapping more deeply into the perceived anger and resentment of his white supporters.
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