Visiting El Paso hospital after massacre, Trump brags about size of his crowds @PamelaBrownCNN reports https://t.co/uQ2XOxHVXR pic.twitter.com/2JiA66w4Db
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 8, 2019
As we have often lamented, one of the factors behind Trump’s “victory” was the complicity of so much of the major media. No matter how badly the Oval Office Occupant disgraced himself and our suffering nation, the Media Village Idiots made excuse ranging from ‘he’s playing a multi-dimensional chess game whose final move is hidden from his critics’ to ‘he relies an expansive sense of what will please his base, regardless of outsiders’ opinions’. But the horrors of last week, and the complete inability of the Squatter-in-Chief to demonstrate even the most basic human emotions in the face of its victims, seem to be piercing the bubble…
An El Paso hospital official says that there was a general assessment that there was "an absence of empathy" on Trump's part during his visit.https://t.co/8L0obCfjND
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 8, 2019
From Trump’s staunchest “nonpartisan” defender, the NYTimes, “Trump Uses a Day of Healing to Deepen the Nation’s Divisions”:
… Mr. Trump’s schedule was meant to follow the traditional model of apolitical presidential visits with victims, law enforcement officials and hospital workers after calamities like the mass shootings that resulted in 31 deaths in Dayton and El Paso and that created a new sense of national crisis over assault weapons and the rise of white supremacist ideology.
That plan went awry even before Mr. Trump, who has acknowledged his discomfort with showing empathy in public, departed Washington…
The result was the latest example of Mr. Trump’s penchant for inflaming divisions at moments when other presidents have tried to soothe them, and further proof of his staff’s inability to persuade him to follow the norms of presidential behavior…
“A really exceptional work of obscenity, like a really exceptional work of beauty, exceeds the ability of its viewers to fathom what they just saw.” -?@gcaw? https://t.co/frqnD1UaIq
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) August 9, 2019
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