Spineless

After the double mass shootings in Texas and Ohio two weeks ago, Donald Trump made a lot a noise about how this time was different, that the laws needed to change, that universal background checks needed to happen. Now two weeks later, he's completely walked away from doing anything (details here).

That's because the gun industry, specifically the NRA, has been massively lobbying him in the last two weeks. Being the spineless man of no principal that he is, he has now completely caved to their pressure.

And, as usual, he resorted to lies to back up his flip-flopping. When he was asked about any attempts to ban so-called assault-style rifles, Trump falsely claimed "there is no political appetite for that at this moment." The reality is that a majority of Americans strongly supports bringing back the assault weapons ban.

Trump is probably hoping time will let him off the hook on guns. But given the increasing frequencies of mass shootings, the next big one isn't far off and will shine a spotlight on his spineless fecklessness. When, once again, he'll talk a big game for a few days, and then do absolutely nothing.