Outrage over "loser" tweet: Trump supporters want to boycott Walmart

Thursday December 31, 2020

Outrage over "loser" tweet
Trump supporters want to boycott Walmart

The nerves are on edge. Not only with Donald Trump, who is leaving Florida early, but also with his fans. Because a Walmart employee reveals his private opinion on the trading company's Twitter account, the supporters of the elected president are threatening a boycott.

Angry supporters of US President Donald Trump want to boycott Walmart over a tweet from the retail giant. The background was a tweet from Republican Senator Josh Hawley, with which he announced resistance to the formal reading of the results of the presidential election on January 6 in Congress. The Democrat Joe Biden had won the vote against Trump. Walmart's official Twitter account replied to Hawley's message, "Go ahead. Get your two-hour debate," adding "#soreloser" (bad loser) as a catchphrase.

Walmart deleted its response a short time later and apologized: "The tweet was incorrectly posted by a member of our social media team who wanted to post this comment in his personal account," the company said when asked. Senator Hawley, meanwhile, foamed and attacked Walmart for having "insulted 75 million Americans" – namely all Trump voters – and accused the company of using slave labor and paying low wages.

Meanwhile, the incident went viral on social networks. Supporters of the US president in particular, who seem to believe his baseless allegations of electoral fraud, were angry. Numerous users insulted Walmart and called under the keyword "#boycottwalmart" to avoid doing business with the company.

At a session in the US Congress on January 6, the results of the presidential election from the individual states will be officially counted and announced. Only then is it official who has won the election. There have long been plans among Trump's Republicans in the House of Representatives to appeal the reading. According to the law, in order to force both chambers to deliberate on the election result, there must be objections from at least one deputy and one senator. With Hawley's involvement, that requirement would be met. The action should only delay the reading of the election results.

New lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court

Incumbent Trump has so far stubbornly refused to admit defeat. The Republican claims he was defrauded by massive fraud. Neither Trump nor his lawyers have provided any substantive evidence to support these claims. More than 50 lawsuits from the Trump camp have so far been thrown out of courts, including the US Supreme Court.

In the latter case, Trump has now again filed a lawsuit with the aim of ensuring that the election in the state of Wisconsin is declared unconstitutional and invalid because of "multiple violations of the law," said his campaign team. Trump also wants to ensure that parliament in the state appoints alternative voters. The votes of the electors who elect the president on behalf of the people in the USA took place on December 14th in the individual states and confirmed Biden as the winner.

According to media reports, Trump's election defeat is becoming more and more common. It has now been announced that the Republican and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, are surprisingly spending New Year's Eve in Washington. The two are scheduled to leave Florida on Thursday morning (local time), earlier than planned, according to the daily program published by the White House. Trump will not be present at the New Year's party in his club resort Mar-a-Lago, although guests would have expected it, reported US media.

The White House did not give any reasons for the early departure. The TV broadcaster CNN reported that Trump had been in an "irritable mood" since his arrival in Florida a week ago – not only because of losing the presidential election, but also because of renovations in Mar-a-Lago, which his wife largely did supervised.