21 February 2018

Worse Than Shameless

Tom Toles at the Washington Post wrote an excellent column yesterday (link here) with the title "How do you know Trump is the worst President ever? When a school shooting offers a ‘reprieve.’"

He starts by referencing a survey conducted of nearly two hundred political scientists that was released on Monday and revealed Donald Trump is already the worst President in US history after barely a year in office (details here).

He then notes how last place is actually being kind because the Trump administration has found a new low in politics when they celebrate how a school mass shooting gave them a media reprieve from their many scandals crowding for headlines (details here).

Trump's response to the school massacre was not measured statesmanship. It was his typical shtick: blame somebody else in unhinged tweets and contradict yourself in the process.

Past Presidents have brought the nation together in the aftermath of great tragedy. Trump, however, is incapable of empathy, incapable of thinking about someone else instead of himself. He does not unite the nation but divides it. This is making America great?

When Trump visits survivors of the Florida mass shooting and the victims' families, perhaps he could offer them paper towels like he did during an extremely brief "tour" of Puerto Rico following devastating hurricanes (details here). Anything else would be even more heartless.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous04:26

    Es increíble que una gran nación haya caído en semejante situación con semejante mediocridad.Amigo venezolano,Cucuta

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  2. I cannot agree more to what you've underlined here.

    As a high school teacher, I was outraged (again) by what happened in Parkland's shooting. I was even more outraged, as a former foster home parent having fostered many children in my home, to see how those foster parents could admit 10 guns in their home with that mentally hill 19yo teen without any aid from the social agents.
    They were left alone with that monster and seems to give him such trust.

    What is now more outrageous is what your leaders are NOT doing despite all those nice kids rallying in Florida and Washington and all over USA to STOP the NRA influence on your politics.

    Those «adults» in office are even laughing to those students but they don't realize that THEY are the future of USA and future voters too.

    Don't minimise the power of social media frome those teens. They are living in the 21st century and know how to respond to your incompetency.

    It's more than time to stop that crazy guns constitutional right that is from another century old.

    We in Canada like in many other countries (I saw some numbers from Japan also) never had such guns rights and we have a very much lower killing rates than in USA.

    USA is «Great Again» to be the top country where there is such mass killing in its population and, sadly, in your schools.

    Shame on USA's politician leaders.

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