President Donald Trump was taken to a White House bunker for shelter Friday night when protesters around the White House began to become violent. The information was also confirmed by a White House official, as well as by a law enforcement source.
The atmosphere in the White House was tense on Friday as protesters gathered at the gate, shouted at the president and even threw stones and bottles. At one point, worried about the president's safety, Secret Service agents quickly took the White House chief to an underground bunker that was also used during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It is unclear what alerted him. agencies in charge of guarding the president. On Friday night, violent protesters managed to briefly break into the Treasury Department, whose headquarters are located near the White House.
Donald Trump sat in the bunker for less than an hour, after which he was taken upstairs. In the end, the agents decided that the president was not really in danger.
First Lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron Trump, also accompanied the president to the bunker, according to the security protocol. The Emergency Operations Center is located underground in the eastern wing of the White House.
What is certain is that the next day, Saturday, the president had on Twitter some threatening messages addressed to the protesters, some finding the language used by Donald Trump really shocking.
On the other hand, scared by the protests, Melania Trump would have decided at the last moment not to come on Saturday night with the president at the Kennedy Space Center to see the launch of the SpaceX mission.
The president did not appear in public on Sunday, preferring to fight on Twitter with his critics, although, he was advised to address the nation in a televised message and told him that the messages transmitted on the social network only pour more gas over the fire.
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The Sydney branch of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) called chess a racist sport, since by the rules white pieces always go first and take precedence over blacks, which is an allegory of racial violence.
A state-owned broadcaster, funded by local taxpayers, plans to discuss this scandalous opening on talk shows with the participation of well-known grandmasters. According to the current rules of one of the oldest board games in the world, finally approved at the end of the 19th century, a player with white pieces makes the first move, and a player with black makes the second, then the opponents move alternately.
Australian chess player John Adams rejected ABC's offer to comment on the racist context of the game, choosing Twitter as a platform for discussion. “The producer of ABC Sydney just phoned me to comment on the rules of the game of chess. They consider the game to be racist, since whites always go first and wait for comments from chess players, ”
Adams wrote, indignant at what the taxpayers' money goes to. He was supported by 57-year-old former world champion Garry Kasparov, who advised those unhappy to choose another game. “If you are worried that the game of chess is racist - please take it - there Black goes first.
It’s better to do this than to look stupid, spending money on such “investigations,” Kasparov said. Among the comments full of sarcasm, the proposal to rename the figures of the king and queen to “His Majesty N1” and “His Majesty N2”, also endowing them with equal opportunities on the chessboard, also stands out.
It is curious that in March 2019, two well-known grandmasters - the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and the Dutchman Anish Giri - already raised the issue of White’s first move as part of the International Day of the United Nations (UN) to eliminate racial discrimination. “The rule of the first move never concerned race or politics, but we can violate it in order to send a message to everyone who believes that color should give an advantage in chess or in life,” Carlsen emphasized then.
The issue of infringement of the rights of the black population of the planet received a new impetus after the death in the USA of an African-American detained by the African George Floyd. The resonant incident on the video caused a wave of mass protests around the world.
