This week saw another mass shooting, this time in Northern California (4 dead, shooter killed — UPDATE: 5 dead — they found his wife’s bodied hidden in his house).
Trump, returning from his Asia stint, tweeted this in response late last night:
Unfortunately, the Sutherland Springs Texas shooting was LAST week’s mass shooting. He deleted the above tweet, although it does look remarkably like a tweet he sent out on November 5:
Embarrassing.
It actually wasn’t the only embarrassing tweet from Trump in the past 12 hours. There was another one. First, the backstory. Three UCLA basketball players were arrested in China for shoplifting last week. When Trump was in China, he asked President Xi to intervene. The three basketball players, all black, are coming back to America. And Trump tweeted this about an hour ago:
Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017
WHO DOES THIS? It is almost as if he is being critical of them, expecting them not to be thankful. I’m sure they are.
I have no doubt that if the three student athletes were white, he would not have tweeted this. This is Trump signaling his supporters that black people are ungrateful, and should be grateful. It’s disgusting.