Ten instances you possibly can ask President Trump, “Have you no shame,” and 10 instances he may inform you, “No, I don’t.”
He had no disgrace when he pardoned the violent criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in a bid to overthrow the federal government on his behalf.
Trump had no disgrace when he tried to do an end-around the Structure with an govt order to finish birthright citizenship.
And, Trump had zero disgrace, none, when he blamed a lethal airplane crash simply miles from the White Home on range, fairness and inclusion insurance policies.
“I put safety first, Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody’s ever seen,” Trump instructed reporters final week within the White Home briefing room, at the same time as our bodies had been being pulled out of Washington, D.C.’s icy Potomac River.
“My administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety. We have to have our smartest people. It doesn’t matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are. It matters — intellect, talent. The word talent. You have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses. You can’t have regular people doing that job. They won’t be able to do it.”
Sixty-seven individuals perished when an Military helicopter collided with a business airliner Wednesday evening throughout its last strategy to Reagan Nationwide Airport.
The lifeless included a bunch of determine skaters, their coaches and members of the family who had been getting back from a growth camp that adopted the U.S. Determine Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.
Wreckage within the Potomac River close to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles, U.S. Coast Guard by way of AP)
Even should you by some means agreed with the Divider-in-Chief that range, fairness and inclusion haven’t any place within the American workforce, there’s nonetheless no getting across the terrible undeniable fact that as Trump spoke, our bodies of the victims had been nonetheless within the water.
“The president was asked whether he had any evidence backing up that outrageous and stomach-turning claim, and he had to acknowledge that he did not,” U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine mentioned on CNN.
“Think about you‘re a family member and you‘ve just lost a loved one, and you‘re grappling with answers and you‘re trying to figure out, and you have the president of the United States trying to blame people for political reasons or cast aspersions on folks alleging that they were DEI hires,” he continued.
“I mean, can you imagine a more damaging thing to hear if you‘re suffering already than a president trying to make political hay out of something like this?”
This, America, is your leader.
Trump began his remarks with a moment of silence, which is where he should have stopped. But this guy can’t even do silent proper.
No surprise Michelle Obama didn’t need to sit subsequent to him at a funeral or be inside 1,000 ft of him at his inauguration.
At the least her husband is aware of how one can conduct himself at a second of nationwide mourning.
When a Black minister in Charleston, S.C., was amongst these killed by a racist gunman in a church bloodbath in 2015, President Barack Obama comforted the congregation — and the nation — by launching right into a refrain of “Amazing Grace” whereas delivering the eulogy on the pastor’s funeral.
The one tune Trump appears to know is “Y.M.C.A.”
President-elect Donald Trump, left, dances because the Village Folks carry out “Y.M.C.A” at a rally forward of the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
Trump can’t appear to assist himself, not even in moments of disaster. He’s the one who can’t put politics apart.
Don’t let him anyplace close to the California wildfires. He may convey a can of gasoline with him.
As if the press briefing remarks weren’t sufficient, Trump doubled down later within the day with a memo from the White Home.
“On my second day in office,” it reads, “I ordered an immediate return to merit-based recruitment, hiring, and promotion, elevating safety and ability as the paramount standard. Yesterday’s devastating accident tragically underscores the need to elevate safety and competence as the priority of the FAA.”
Among the many outraged was former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,who wrote on X that Trump’s remarks had been “despicable.”
“As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying,” he wrote.
It’s going to be a protracted 4 years.