总统唐纳德·特朗普警告抗议者试图推倒一座雕像并在白宫附近建立一个“黑房子自治区”，这将会有“严重”的后果。
在对西雅图市政府官员允许抗议者在那里建立“自治区”进行了数周的指责后，特朗普周二早上在推特上写道，“只要他是总统，首都就不会有这样的自治区”，并发誓任何进一步的尝试“都会遭到严厉的惩罚!”
推特后来在特朗普的推特上贴了一个警告标签，上面写道:“这条推特违反了推特关于虐待行为的规定。然而，推特认为保持推特的可访问性可能符合公众利益，“除非用户点击“查看”，否则隐藏总统的文本”
2020年6月23日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在白宫南草坪登上海军陆战队一号前往亚利桑那州之前对记者发表了讲话，他将在那里参观尤马的边防墙建设行动，并在凤凰城会见一个保守的宣传团体。
周二前往亚利桑那州时，特朗普感谢警方在周一晚上阻止抗议者——他称之为“破坏者、流氓、无政府主义者和煽动者”——取得成功。
“昨晚我们阻止了对安德鲁·杰克逊和拉斐特公园伟大纪念碑的袭击，”特朗普告诉记者，并补充说“许多人”已经在监狱里，更多人“今天”就要走了
除了试图拆除杰克逊雕像，抗议者还试图在附近街道的尽头建立一个“黑房子自治区”，现在称为“黑生活物质广场”——两者都离白宫前门不远。
2020年6月22日，在白宫附近的拉斐特公园前，抗议者在他们竖立的路障旁与警察对峙，路障上标有“黑房子自治区”的标志。
人们看到“BHAZ”被喷涂在圣约翰圣公会的柱子上，抗议者在那里搭起了帐篷，还被喷涂在该地区周围的胶合板上。
为了阻止周二晚上的另一次努力，警方迄今阻止抗议者接近黑色生命物质广场和拉斐特公园的尽头。
周二上午，特朗普在南草坪发表讲话时，在早前威胁要起诉抗议者的推文中，他让步了。
2020年6月22日，在种族不平等抗议期间，抗议者试图推倒白宫前拉斐特公园中央的安德鲁·杰克逊总统雕像。
“我们正在考虑对这些破坏分子、流氓、无政府主义者和煽动者判处长期监禁。有些人不喜欢那种语言，但那就是他们:坏人。他们不爱我们的国家，也不会拆除我们的纪念碑，”他说。“我只想让这一点变得清晰。”
特朗普在推特上表示，他已经“授权”联邦政府“逮捕任何破坏或摧毁美国任何纪念碑、雕像或其他类似联邦财产的人。”
他写道，这种违法行为将被处以最高10年的监禁。
他们高呼“嘿，嘿，吼，吼，安德鲁·杰克逊得走了”，同时在拉斐特广场的一匹马上描绘的第七任总统铜像周围扔绳子。
2020年6月22日，在华盛顿特区白宫附近的拉斐特广场，一名妇女试图推倒美国前总统安德鲁·杰克逊的雕像，当抗议者与警察发生冲突时，她被胡椒喷雾击中。
警方最终在周一介入，并使用化学刺激物驱散人群。
周二白天，基地被喷涂上了“杀手”一词
2020年6月23日，在华盛顿州的拉斐特公园，安德鲁·杰克逊总统的雕像后面可以看到白宫，雕像底部涂有“黑仔”字样。
特朗普曾说过，杰克逊是一个个人英雄，他在两个世纪前领导了美国原住民的系统迁移。
2017年2月1日，雷克斯·蒂勒森在白宫椭圆形办公室宣誓就任国务卿之前，唐纳德·特朗普总统在民粹主义总统安德鲁·杰克逊的画像下讲话。
他在椭圆形办公室的坚决桌后面放置了一个坐落在拉斐特公园的杰克逊雕像的小复制品。
2019年9月5日，唐纳德·特朗普总统站在椭圆形办公室，旁边是英国皇家海军“坚决”号的办公桌，椅子后面放着克拉克·米尔斯创作的安德鲁·杰克逊骑马雕像的复制品。拉斐特公园白宫外矗立着一尊大型杰克逊雕像。
他把杰克逊的肖像挂在桌子旁边。
在他执政的早期，他在纳什维尔的杰克逊墓前敬献了花圈。
2017年3月15日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在田纳西州纳什维尔参观安德鲁·杰克逊的隐居处后，向前总统安德鲁·杰克逊的墓敬献了花圈。唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)造访纳什维尔，召集支持者，向前任、不太可能的政治偶像安德鲁·杰克逊(Andrew Jackson)致敬，他是美国第一位民粹主义总统。
根据内政部发言人的说法，尽管总统说已经逮捕了“许多人”，但是美国公园警察还是逮捕了两人。一名军官被不明武器击中后上身受伤。他被送往当地医院，后来被释放。
特朗普一再批评西雅图领导层的自治区域——说他可以在几分钟内清除那里的抗议者。
目前尚不清楚特朗普或执法部门可能会采取什么措施来阻止周一晚上的重演，但在周二白天，抗议标志已经被移除，警方似乎已经设置了更大的警戒线。
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6月1日，执法部门使用化学刺激物和烟雾弹清除了白宫以北拉斐特公园的和平抗议者，紧接着，总统简短地走向教堂，面前摆着一本圣经，并与他的助手们合影。
2020年6月1日，华盛顿特区，在抗议乔治·弗洛伊德死亡的活动中，身穿防暴服的警察在白宫外的圣约翰圣公会教堂前击退示威者。
随着近几周全国各地的抗议者拆毁纪念碑，特朗普针对抗议者的言论与他为与种族主义或奴隶制有关联的历史人物雕像辩护的同时，也越来越激烈。
他周二补充说，如果各州不能处理抗议者，联邦政府将会处理，并期待行政命令“尽快”惩罚那些拆毁雕像的人
“我很快就会有行政命令。特朗普说:“它真正要做的是强化已经存在的东西，但方式要更加统一。”。“如果各州政府，如你所见，都结束了，西雅图。他们非常虚弱。在明尼苏达州，他们可能需要帮助。如果他们需要帮助，联邦政府愿意帮助他们。”
2020年6月20日，白宫前的拉斐特广场展示了帐篷。2020年6月20日，白宫前的拉斐特广场展示了帐篷。
“如果这些流氓来了，如果各州处理不了，我们准备好了，愿意并且能够像在明尼苏达州那样提供帮助，”他说，他指的是乔治·弗洛伊德死后国民警卫队被派去的时候。
特朗普早些时候引用了老兵纪念碑保护或“其他相关法律”来执行逮捕。
该法案是在2003年通过的，当时军队墓地发生了多起故意破坏事件，尤其是夏威夷军队墓地发生的多起故意破坏事件。
该法的一节规定，蓄意伤害或毁坏"纪念任何人在美国武装部队服役"的纪念物的人----或企图这样做的人----将被罚款和/或监禁不超过10年。
但是国会授权根据联邦法律起诉犯罪，而不是总统。
特朗普已经不是第一次对位于国会山附近的西雅图自治区表示鄙视了，该自治区被称为“查兹”(CHAZ)，他现在可以在前门外找到这个版本。
2020年6月23日，在华盛顿白宫附近的抗议活动中，一个人从帐篷里往外看，华盛顿特区警察正在清理圣约翰圣公会教堂前的黑人生活广场。
周六在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的集会上，他说如果华盛顿州的民主党州长杰伊·因西给他打电话，他需要“不到一个小时”来清理这片区域。特朗普说他“很乐意这么做”
“现在这些是无政府主义者，他们不是抗议者，”特朗普在谈到西雅图时说。“你能想象如果稍微偏右的人试图接管西雅图吗?他们会拿出机关枪来干掉他们，但是这些人可以接管这座城市，看看他们对那些花了很多年来建立自己生意的商人做了什么，现在他们被消灭了。把它拿走。温斯利州长应该行动起来，去那里。”
2020年6月23日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普从马里兰州安德鲁斯联合基地离开华盛顿，启程前往亚利桑那州进行一日游，并访问美国和墨西哥边境。
他在讲话中还为邦联和其他与种族主义有关联的领导人的雕像进行了辩护，因为全国各地都有这样的雕像流传下来。
“疯狂的左翼暴徒试图破坏我们的历史，亵渎我们的纪念碑，我们美丽的纪念碑，”特朗普周六说。"他们想摧毁我们的遗产，这样他们就可以用新的压迫政权来取代它。"
2020年6月20日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的博克中心的竞选集会上发表讲话。
阿肯色州参议员汤姆·科顿(Tom Cotton)是一名保守的共和党人，他同意特朗普总统的观点，认为应该根据该法案对抗议者提出指控，就像近一个月前他同意总统的观点一样，当时他威胁要援引《暴动法案》。
周一晚上，随着事态的发展，科顿在参议院发言时呼吁司法部对拆除雕像的“暴民义务警员”提起诉讼:“我们不能容忍暴民统治，我们不能让它不受惩罚。”
Trump vows jail for 'anarchists' toppling monuments, warns protesters trying to establish 'Black House Autonomous Zone'
PresidentDonald Trumphas warned protesters whotried to topple a statueof President Andrew Jackson and build a "Black House Autonomous Zone" near the White House that there will be "serious" consequences.
After weeks of railing against city officials in Seattle for allowing protesters to make an "autonomous zone" there, Trump tweeted Tuesday morning "there will never be" one in the nation's capital as long as he's president and vowed that any more attempts "will be met with serious force!"
Twitter later slapped a warning label on Trump's tweet, reading: "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about abusive behavior. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible," hiding the president's text unless a user clicks "view."
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, June 23, 2020 to travel to Arizona where he will tour border-wall-construction operations in Yuma, and meet with a conservative advocacy group in Phoenix.
As he departed for Arizona Tuesday, Trump thanked police for stopping protesters Monday night -- whom he called "vandals, hoodlums, anarchists and agitators" -- from succeeding.
"Last night we stopped an attack on a great monument of Andrew Jackson and Lafayette Park," Trump told reporters, adding that "numerous people" are already in jail and more are going "today."
In addition to the attempts to tear down the Jackson statue, protesters tried to build a "Black House Autonomous Zone" at the end of the nearby street now called "Black Lives Matter Plaza" -- both a short distance from the White House front door.
June 22, 2020.Protesters confront police near a barricade they erected and marked with the sign "Black House Autonomous Zone" in front of Lafayette Park near the White House, June 22, 2020.
"BHAZ" was seen spray-painted on the columns of St. John's Episcopal Church, where protesters had set up tents, and on pieces of plywood protesters placed around the area.
In an attempt to thwart another effort Tuesday night, police have so far prevented protesters from getting close to the end of Black Lives Matter Plaza and Lafayette Park.
As he spoke on the South Lawn Tuesday morning, Trump doubled down on an earlier tweet threatening to prosecute protesters.
June 22, 2020.Protesters attempt to pull down the statue of President Andrew Jackson in the middle of Lafayette Park in front of the White House during racial inequality protests, June 22, 2020.
"We are looking at long term jail sentences for these vandals, hoodlums, anarchists and agitators. Some people don't like that language, but that's what they are: Bad people. They don't love our country, and they're not taking down our monuments," he said. "I just want that to be clear."
Trump had tweeted he'd already "authorized" the federal government to "arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S."
He wrote the offense would be punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
They chanted "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Andrew Jackson's got to go," as they threw ropes around the bronze statue of the seventh president, depicted atop a horse in Lafayette Square.
A woman reacts to being hit with pepper spray as protesters clash with police after they attempted to pull down the statue of former U.S. President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2020.
Police eventually intervened Monday and used chemical irritants to disperse the crowd.
Daylight Tuesday showed the base had been spray-painted with the word "killer."
The White House is visible behind a statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, June 23, 2020, in Washington, with the word "Killer" spray painted on its base.
Trump has said Jackson, who led the systematic removal of native Americans two centuries ago, is a personal hero.
President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 1, 2017.
He's placed a small replica of the Jackson statue that sits in Lafayette Park behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump stands in the Oval Office, Sept. 5, 2019, next to the HMS Resolute desk with a replica of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson by Clark Mills, behind his chair. A large version of the Jackson statue stand just outside the White House in Lafayette Park.
He had a portrait of Jackson hung next to the desk.
And early in his administration he placed a wreath at Jackson's tomb in Nashville.
President Donald Trump lays a wreath at the tomb of former president Andrew Jackson after he took a tour of Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Nashville, Tenn., March 15, 2017. Donald Trump visited Nashville to rally supporters and pay homage to predecessor and unlikely political idol Andrew Jackson, America's first populist president.
Though the president said "numerous" arrests were made, two arrests were made by U.S. Park Police, according to a Department on Interior spokesperson. One officer sustained an upper-body injury after being struck by an unknown weapon. He was transported to a local hospital and later released.
Trump has repeatedly criticized Seattle leadership for its the autonomous zone -- saying he could clear out protesters there in minutes.
It wasn't immediately clear what Trump or law enforcement might do to stop a repeat of Monday night, but during the day Tuesday protest signs had been removed and police appeared to have set up had set up a larger perimeter.
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Law enforcement on June 1 used chemical irritants and smoke canisters to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, immediately before the president briefly walked to the church to pose with a Bible in front of it and took photographs with his aides.
June 1, 2020, in Washington D.C., during a protest over the death of George Floyd.Police officers wearing riot gear push back demonstrators in front of St. John's Episcopal Church outside of the White House, June 1, 2020, in Washington D.C., during a protest over the death of George Floyd.
Trump's rhetoric against protesters has ramped up alongside his defense for statues of historical figures with ties to racism or slavery, as protesters across the country have torn down monuments in recent weeks.
He added Tuesday that if states can't handle protesters, the federal government will, and to expect an executive order to discipline those tearing down statues "shortly."
"I will have an executive order very shortly. And all it's really going to do is reinforce what's already there, but in a more uniform way," Trump said. "If the state governments, as you see them, all over, Seattle. They're very weak. And in Minnesota, they might need help. If they need help, the federal government is willing to help them."
Tents are shown at Lafayette Square, June 20, 2020, in front of the White House.Tents are shown at Lafayette Square, June 20, 2020, in front of the White House.
"If these hoodlums come around, and if the states can't handle it, we are ready, willing and able to help as we did in Minnesota," he said, referring to when the National Guard was sent in after George Floyd's death.
Trump earlier cited the Veterans Memorial Preservation or "such other laws that may be pertinent" to enforce the arrests.
It was passed in 2003, in the wake of instances of vandalism at military cemeteries, especially a rash of vandalism at military cemeteries in Hawaii.
One section of the act states that a person who willfully injures or destroys memorials "commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States" -- or attempts to do so -- shall be fined and/or imprisoned no more than 10 years.
But Congress authorizes prosecutions for crimes under federal law, not the president.
It's not the first time Trump has expressed disdain at Seattle's autonomous zone in its Capitol Hill neighborhood -- dubbed the "CHAZ" -- a version of which he can now find outside his front door.
A person looks out of their tent as Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officers approach to clear the Black Lives Matter Plaza area in front of St. John's Episcopal Church during protests near the White House in Washington, June 23, 2020.
At his Saturday rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he said it would take him "less than an hour" to clear the zone if Democratic Gov. Jay Inlsee of Washington state called him. Trump said he would "love to do it."
"Now these are anarchists, these are not protestors," Trump said, speaking of Seattle. "Could you imagine if people just even slightly to the right tried to take over Seattle? They'd have machine guns out to get them, but these people can take over the city, look at what they've done to businesspeople that have spent years and years building their business, and now they're wiped out. Take it away. Governor Inslee ought to get his act together, get in there."
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs on a day trip to Arizona and a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, leaving Washington from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, June 23, 2020.
He also defended statues of Confederate and other leaders tied to racism in his remarks, as statue across the country of such figures come down.
"The unhinged left wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments, our beautiful monuments," Trump said Saturday. "They want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive regime in its place."
US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a conservative Republican, agreed with President Trump that charges should be brought against protesters under the act, as he did nearly a month ago agreeing with the president when he threatened to invoke Insurrection Act.
Speaking on the Senate floor Monday night as the events unfolded, Cotton called on the Justice Department to bring charges against "mob vigilantes" taking down statues: "We cannot tolerate mob rule and we cannot allow it to go unpunished."
