After a weekend of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that killed a combined 31 people, Donald Trump appeared before TV cameras inside The White House on Monday to address the American people. Needless to say, the big Trump shooting speech didn’t go well!
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In what has become standard fare from most conservatives who are under ironclad control of the NRA, Trump began with the typical and nonsensical extension of “thoughts and prayers” yadda yadda yadda for those whose lives were lost at the hands of 2 lone white supremacists.
“In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy,” ‘The Donald’ said while donning his best somber face in order to appear as if he really cared. “These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America.”
Next, Trump segued into a deflection of blame-game, holding any and everything responsible for the shooting deaths except the true culprits.
“Mental illness and hate pull the trigger, not the gun,” Trump continued, while alternating blame between “the internet” and “gruesome” video games as what is shaping minds for the violence in society.
“It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence,” he added. “We must stop or substantially reduce this and it has to begin immediately.”
In the words of Fred Sanford from the old television sitcom “Sandford & Son,” ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!?
Yes, the Trump shooting speech blamed mental health and violent video games. Yes, Donald Trump completely ignored the racist manifesto the El Paso shooter wrote (which included Trump’s own race-baiting rhetoric) prior to driving 650 miles just to kill Mexicans. Yes, Trump even glossed over the fact that the Dayton shooter killed 9 people — 6 of whom were (strategically?) black.
Not once did Donald Trump ever mention how he has personally spent the last several years revving up his white supremacist base for this very moment of violence, or how he spent his entire campaign demonizing Mexicans as rapists and killers and degraded south-of-the-border immigrants as “dirty” and “animals,” or how he promoted violence by promising to pay the bail money and attorney fees for any of his supporters who would “punch them [immigrants/brown/black people] in the face. Oh, no! For you see, Donald Trump is NEVER wrong. Donald Trump is NEVER the cause of anything bad or evil.
The mass shooters who evoked Trump’s own words as they mowed down black and brown people in the name of white supremacy (in order to “Make America Great Again”) could not have possibly wreaked their havoc because of the hate speech from Trump’s own mouth. Oh, no! It was video games and mental illness. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Too bad the junior flunkie who wrote the Trump shooting speech couldn’t find the words to explain how Japan, China, Brazil, Norway, and countless countries across the globe all have citizens who play video games and have mental health issues, but still don’t shoot and kill their own citizens or promote some sort of racial superiority.
“May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo, may God protect them. May God protect all of those from Texas to Ohio.” – Donald Trump
Now, here’s the clincher. As a solution to fix the violence, Trump suggested we simply monitor hate speech on social media and the internet. HUH??? That’s the equivalent of monitoring the weather report for rain, instead of closing the damned windows in order to keep the storm out.
Donald Trump was so caught up in his own false rhetoric that he fumbled reading the teleprompter and said the shooting occurred in Toledo — when any American off the street was well aware it happened in Dayton.
The Trump shooting speech was so empty and heartless and devoid of humanity, that it took the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, to rise from his retirement and rise to the occasion of being presidential in the absence of a real one. Here is what he said:
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— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 5, 2019
In what’s likely a surprise to no one, the Trump shooting speech was widely panned as the same old BS that will change nothing and will continue putting weapons-grade automatic assault guns into the hands of white supremacists — all with the blessings of the Republican Party and their pimp: the NRA.
Former Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez — a Puerto Rican-American — said it best. Until Donald Trump takes responsibility and stops igniting hatred and bigotry in the US and until the Republican party takes action on gun control legislation and stops allowing themselves to be “owned” by the National Rifle Association, nothing will change.
Take that, thoughts and prayers!
The Trump shooting speech was so empty and heartless and devoid of humanity, that it took the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, to rise from his retirement and rise to the occasion of being presidential in the absence of a real one. [..] -DJ
Yep. That’s it in a nutshell. Each man did what comes natural to him. Trump gave a speech that was “empty and heartless and devoid of humanity”….just like the man himself.
Of course Pres. Obama “{rose} to the occasion of being presidential in the absence of a real one..” And none of Us are surprised because That’s the kind of Man he is. A leader. A real leader….with a heart.