Fox News reported Feb. 4 that Frostproof, Florida, declared Feb. 1 “Donald J. Trump Week” from 1-6 each February to honor the former president.
Frostproof Mayor Jon Albert (Mayor Jon Albert) said in a statement, “Former President Donald J. Trump received overwhelming support here, winning 76.43 percent of the vote in Frostproof, Florida’s 537th Congressional District, winning Florida twice in a row, and receiving more votes than any sitting president in U.S. history. “
Rep. Anthony Sabatini (D-Fla.), who has proposed renaming U.S. 27 the Trump Highway, shared the statement on Facebook, expressing support for it and calling it “a great initiative. “This is the first city in America to make such a decision,” he noted in a Facebook post.
The declaration praised Trump’s presidential accomplishments, which have resulted in a total of 1.2 million manufacturing and construction workers across the United States, the creation of 9,000 Opportunity Zones, and a U.S. foreign policy that has not only “not been involved in new wars,” but has also seen the withdrawal of some troops from abroad. “
Frostproof is a small city 100 miles south of Orlando, Florida, with a population of about 3,180, more than 90 percent of whom are non-Hispanic whites. Critics disagree with such an arrangement during the first week of Black History Month, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times.
White city resident Aimee Ward told the Tampa Bay Times, “I voted for Trump, but I think declaring the week of Trump’s birthday in June as Trump Week, I’m all for that. But to declare the 1st week of Black History Month as Trump Week is not so appropriate.”
The Tampa Bay Times is a newspaper published in Tampa Bay on the west coast of Florida, USA. It has won 12 Pulitzer Prizes since 1964.
James Ring, a Republican local official, told the paper, “I think doing this on the 1st week of Black History Month has made it a racial issue, but I don’t think there was any malice in the City Council’s decision. “
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