Trump's family tries to clean up his mess by tweeting wildly inconsistent calls for peace

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The Trump family is extremely online today, and they're all over the place with their messaging. 

On Friday morning, Twitter hid another one of Donald Trump's tweets and slapped a warning label on it. Trump's statement about the protests over the death of George Floyd — which included the phrase, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" — violated the site's rules about glorifying violence, and many horrified users agreed. (For background, that phrase was first spoken in 1967 by Miami police chief, Walter Headley, when explaining that his force "didn't mind being accused of police brutality.")

This is part of an ongoing fight between the social media platforms and the president, who yesterday signed an executive order intended to intimidate these companies against getting in the way of him spreading (often false) information to his followers.

After Twitter took action against Trump's tweet on Friday morning, the official White House Twitter account re-tweeted the president's words. (Twitter eventually censored that tweet as well.) But as Trump's unpresidential, divisive messages came under fire, his family members logged on and tried to do their best to clean up his mess.

Image: screenshot / twitter

It's rare to see the majority of the Trump family commenting online at the same time, but on Friday Melania, Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr., Eric, and even Lara shared their thoughts on the chaos that's unfolding in Minnesota and Twitter's actions against the president.

The tweets, however, all carried fairly inconsistent messages.

Melania called for peace and offered her deepest condolences to George Floyd's family. She also asked that we focus on "peace, prayers & healing" as a nation, which directly contradicts her husband's call to send the National Guard to Minnesota and use violence if necessary to get the situation under control.