Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House to protest
Floyd's killing while under police custody, and parts of St John's
Church beside the White House caught fire due to the protests.
According to reports over 50 Secret Service agents were injured in clashes with protesters and Trump had to be rushed to the secret bunker for protection.
Trump has now said he went down to the White House bunker during the protests in Washington D.C. to inspect it and that he was not taken into secure shelter out of safety concerns.
Trump was reportedly furious at the image of himself in the
underground secure bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies
like a terrorist attack. He reportedly spent an hour there on Friday as
hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House throwing rocks
and clashing with police.
'I go down, I've gone down two or three times - all for inspection - and
you go there, some day you may need it,' Trump said Wednesday on Brian
Kilmeade's FOX News Radio show.
'I went down. I looked at it. It was during the day, it was not a problem.'
'It was more for an inspection.'
'I was there for a tiny, short little period of time,' he told Kilmeade
in a 30 minute interview on Wednesday morning. 'A whole group of people
went with me as an inspecting factor.'
'They said it would be a good time to go down and take a look because
maybe sometime you're going to need it,' he noted. 'I've been down -
that'd be number two, so two and half sort of, because I've done
different things, but two and a half.'
'But I looked I was down for a very very short period of time, a very
very short period of time, I can't tell you who went with me but a whole
group of people went with me,' Trump added.
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