August 7, 2019: President Trump Identifies the Real Victim of the El Paso and Dayton Massacres

 

8/7/19: According to President Trump we now know who the biggest victim of the El Paso and Dayton massacres was. No – not the dead and wounded. No – not the grieving families. No! It’s not first responders, police, emergency squad personnel, ICU nurses and trauma surgeons who deal with the wreckage of bodies. No. No. No. No. No one has suffered more than…. 

…Donald J. Trump.  

 

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“There’s no longer any doubt that the president has blood on his hands.” 

Governor William Weld

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We know this, because Trump is up early Wednesday, preparing for his trip to Dayton and El Paso, and totally focused on the victims and families of…. 

Nope. Not even close. 

At 5:32 a.m., he’s rage-tweeting, obsessing over a changed headline, the day before, in The New York Times. 

“Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,” was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times, but it was quickly changed to, “Assailing Hate But Not Guns,” after the Radical Left Democrats went absolutely CRAZY! Fake News - That’s what we’re up against...

 

Unlike most Trump supporters, this humble blogger subscribes to and regularly reads The New York Times. The changed headline has nothing to do with the gist of the story that followed. 

Yes, the first headline indicated: “Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.” 

That doesn’t mean anyone thought the president was sincere. Not under any headline you might conjure.

Some of the real victims.

 

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“I think my rhetoric brings people together.” 

A FEW HOURS LATER, speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, before leaving for Dayton and El Paso, Trump insists that Democrats are trying to score political points by attacking him. 

A reporter asks, “Do you think your rhetoric is fueling the violence?” 

“I don’t think my rhetoric does at all,” the president replies. “I think my rhetoric brings people together.” 

With that, it was off to Dayton, where the visit went off without any serious problems, with only a few dozen protesters gathered at the hospital and a couple hundred more at the site of the massacre. The mayor and Sen. Sherrod Brown, both Democrats, say the visit went “well enough.” 

And away Trump goes!

 

On to El Paso, where thousands are waiting to protest. And where he will bring solace, in part, by calling the mayor of that city a RINO. (“Republican in Name Only,” if you don’t know.) 

Here, Trump runs into the kind of trouble that dogs him at so many points. First, eight shooting victims and their families at the University Medical Center in El Paso refuse to meet him. Next, he’s filmed talking to medical staff at the hospital. The topic of discussion? He’s bragging about how big his crowd was when he visited El Paso for a rally earlier this year. Even worse, Trump can’t get past the tragedy of his persecution. Yes, 31 Americans have been massacred. Trump is suffering most. 

He has been shot in the orange ego. 

Flying home to Washington, he goes on the attack. Democrats, he howls, are trying to politicize the carnage! 

Well, take this: 

Watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech. Sooo Boring! The LameStream Media will die in the ratings and clicks with this guy [emphasis added]. It will be over for them, not to mention the fact that our Country will do poorly with him. It will be one big crash, but at least China will be happy! 

 

Ponder this a moment. Trump seems to believe the real issue for the day is “clicks,” website traffic, like “clicks” on cute cat videos and stupid young men managing to hit themselves in the nuts. 

Next, Trump takes a poke at Fox News! “Watching Fake News CNN is better than watching Shepard Smith, the lowest rated show on @FoxNews. Actually, whenever possible, I turn to @OANN!” 

Ah! Low TV ratings – worse than blood in the streets. 

Next, we get bragging: 

Leaving El Paso for the White House. What GREAT people I met there and in Dayton, Ohio. The Fake News worked overtime trying to disparage me and the two trips, but it just didn’t work. The love, respect & enthusiasm were there for all to see. They have been through so much. Sad!

 

Indeed, the “love, respect & enthusiasm” for Donald J. Trump is all that Donald J. Trump cares about.

 

In the meantime (and Trump must have missed this, or he’d have had to unleash Twitter hell again), former Gov. William Weld, a Republican, blisters the president’s response to the shootings. 

Appearing on MSNBC, Weld is blunt. “There’s no longer any doubt that the president has blood on his hands. You could draw a direct line from that manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to the Trump handbook. Every week it seems the president gets a bit more unhinged.”