United States President Donald Trump retweeted a video in which supporters are shown shouting "white power" this week, thanking the "great people" in the video before ultimately deleting the post. The video was taken at a retirement village in Florida and shows a man in a golf cart shouting "white power" repeatedly before being echoed by another man in the crowd, "Ya, white power!"

"White Power isn't a dog whistle," culture critic at The Undefeated Soraya Nadia McDonald tweeted. "It's an air horn."

Trump's press secretary Kayleigh McEnany soon came out claiming that Trump "did not hear the one statement made on the video."

Of course, those in retirement villages are at risk for another global crisis: COVID-19. The novel coronavirus has enveloped the globe for the past months, resulting in over half a million deaths as of June 19. Meanwhile, systemic racism in the justice system and recent acts of police brutality, particularly the murder of George Floyd by police, have led to widespread protesting and unrest.

Trump has faced considerable criticism for his reactions to both of these issues. He has repeatedly called for the use of violent force against protestors, including in the form of threats of military intervention. He called himself a friend to peaceful protestors in the Rose Garden while peaceful protestors just outside the Whitehouse in Lafayette Park were being violently dispersed so that Trump could pose for a photo at a church. A member of the clergy of that church had also been dispersed with the peaceful crowds; no one at the church had been warned.

As COVID-19 racks the country, Trump has spent his time going golfing and calling for his administration to "slow down" testing- higher case numbers make him look bad. He also has repeatedly refused to wear a mask calling them a "double-edged sword" and implying those who wear them are trying to make a political statement. Like testing, Trump has said that wearing a mask would "send the wrong message", ostensibly that the coronavirus is a serious threat in the United States and that Trump might be doing less than a perfect in responding to it.

Just last week, Trump held a Tulsa rally despite confirming 6 COVID-19 cases amongst his pre-rally Tulsa team. Since then, at least one person who was there reporting on the event has tested positive for the virus. Before entering the rally, supporters were asked to sign waivers in the case that they contracted COVID-19.

Cases in the states continue to mount with more than 400,000 cases across the U.S. as of Friday. Trump claimed the spike is being caused by "GREAT TESTING" despite reports from medical experts stating that testing is far from the only explanation. The President was conspicuously absent from Friday's COVID-19 briefing, the first one held in weeks. In previous briefings, Trump has made claims regarding the use of bleach internally to treat the virus. He has also repeatedly touted the efficacy of an anti-malaria drug in treating the coronavirus despite medical evidence to the contrary.

Also this week, allegations were released regarding Russian intelligence efforts to pay a bounty to Taliban fighters for dead Americans. Trump tweeted that "everybody is denying it", leading some to claim that he's avoiding condemning Russia's actions.

"This is as bad as it gets." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on ABC. "And yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed... Whether he is or not, his administration knows, and our allies - some of our allies who work with us in Afghanistan - had been briefed and accept this report."

"Just as I have said to the president: With him, all roads lead to Putin. I don't know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, financially or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore," Pelosi added, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Pelosi and other critics of the President's decision not to condemn Russia's actions cited several acts of preferential treatment by Trump toward Russia as cause for concern. Specifically, Trump wants Russia to attend the G8 summit.

Another name often associated with Trump's came up in relation to this issue: John Bolton. Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, said the President's national security policy is "just unconnected to the reality he's dealing with. It's about his personal position."

Bolton, of course, is currently in a struggle with the Whitehouse to publish his highly critical memoir about his time in the Whitehouse entitled "The Room Where It Happened".