This week President Donald Trump was accused of legitimizing far-proper extremism by retweeting a series of messages by Jayda Fransen, a leader of the far-proper Britain First organization.
Criticism of the President’s retweets came from all corners, including from British Prime Minister Theresa May (who has worked to be an ally to Trump), and whose office said Trump was “wrong” to promote the videos.
But the damage was done. Aymann Ismail,the host and creator of Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail, and an American Muslim, or talks about the backlash he received from furious Trump supporters in his twitter mentions and Brian takes calls from Muslim listeners on how they felt when the President amplified anti-Muslim propaganda to his 44 million followers.
Source: thetakeaway.org