US President Donald Trump retweeted a movie showing a single of his supporters in Florida shouting “white electricity” at protesters of his administration, drawing an instant rebuke from the only Black Republican in the Senate.

The movie on Twitter, which was later on deleted from Trump’s feed, displays Trump protesters and supporters shouting profanities at each individual other. Immediately after a protester phone calls a Trump supporter a racist, the guy responds by elevating his fist and shouting “white electrical power.”

The slogan is often made use of by white supremacists.

“You will find no problem that he really should not have retweeted it and he should really just just take it down,” U.S. Senator Tim Scott told CNN’s “Point out of the Union” method.

White Residence spokesman Judd Deere reported the president “is a major lover of The Villages. He did not hear the just one assertion built on the online video. What he did see was great enthusiasm from his many supporters.”

The tweet comes on the heels of Trump’s hostile reaction to protests from racial injustice engulfing the United States following the loss of life of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died soon after a white law enforcement officer knelt on his neck for pretty much 9 minutes in Minneapolis.

‘Thank you to the good individuals of The Villages’

In the tweet, Trump wrote “Thank you to the good people of The Villages”, a retirement neighborhood in Florida he visited very last yr.

“It was so profanity-laced, the entire thing was offensive. Unquestionably, the remark about the white energy was offensive,” the South Carolina Republican included. “It can be indefensible. We really should acquire it down.”

Trump has been accused of racism by lawmakers for his tweets in the past, including for assaults on Black lawmakers and for telling four congresswomen of colour that they ought to “go back and aid resolve the totally broken and crime-infested locations from which they came.”