President Trump isn't helping the situation in Minnesota with his tweets, the state's governor says.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) spoke in a news conference on Friday amid the ongoing
protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died Monday after a white
police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. In a late-night tweet about the protests, Trump wrote that "these THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd" and that "when the looting starts, the
shooting starts.""It's just not helpful," Walz said when asked for his reaction to Trump's tweets. "In the moment where we're at, in a moment that is so volatile, anything we do to add fuel to that
fire is really, really challenging."Walz, who said he spoke to the president, added that "there's a way to do this without inflaming." Trump's tweet earned a warning label from
Twitter, which said the tweet violated its rules against glorifying violence. The
White House later posted the exact same tweet, and was hit with the same warning label from Twitter.