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   The President has not been seen in public since traveling to Florida on   
   Saturday and his schedule did not include any public appearances Monday. Aides   
   were still deliberating how and whether Trump should come out and address some   
   of the worst unrest in    
   decades.   
      
   Some of the President's allies have grown increasingly frustrated with what   
   has felt to some like silence from the White House on the unrest and   
   underlying racial tensions. Many, from campaign donors to Republicans on   
   Capitol Hill, have privately    
   grumbled that Trump has allowed several days to pass without addressing the   
   nation or making any formal appeals for unity.   
      
   What Trump has done publicly -- tweet extensively about his grievances with   
   state and local Democratic leaders and mention the protests in the middle of a   
   previously scheduled event -- has at best gone unnoticed and at worst fanned   
   the flames of outrage    
   into a second week.   
      
   Some outside allies have reached out to the White House to push for an   
   appearance from Trump in which he would confront a crisis he has largely   
   watched unfold from behind closed doors or in the underground bunker. One   
   major campaign donor worried the    
   damage inflicted by Trump's absence during a historic weekend of violence and   
   pain could alone imperil his reelection.   
      
   A person familiar with the matter said there is a sense among allies that an   
   attempt to address the situation in a speech over the weekend fell completely   
   flat. The person said the unrelated backdrop of the Kennedy Space Center --   
   and the fact that it    
   came on a Saturday afternoon -- ensured few people even registered the   
   passages that were added to the speech at the last minute.   
      
   The person also noted a growing sense among congressional Republicans, even   
   allies, that the "caps lock" tweets are not helping the situation.   
      
   Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said on "Fox News Sunday" that he   
   had spoken to Trump over the weekend about his inflammatory tweets, which he   
   described as "not constructive."   
      
   But the President's rant Monday morning to governors illustrated risks of   
   putting Trump out to confront the protests when he is worked up and angry.   
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   Aw, just do it.  Give him a raised podium and microphone (he loves those) and   
   let him go out and talk to his voters.  Think of the media attention he could   
   get from that one little appearance.  Better than a dozen campaign rallies.....   
      
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