Donald Trump may be a lot of things – a racist, a narcissist, a philanderer, a bad businessman – but at his core, he is a total dunderhead.
Our “so-called” president has no sense of time or place. If there’s an opportunity for him to act inappropriately, he’ll seize it with the gusto of a kid let loose in a candy store.
The latest example of how Trump is incapable of acting fittingly under the circumstances occurred just a few days ago in El Paso, Texas.
Instead of having the basic good sense of faking empathy, which the situation called for after 22 people were killed and many wounded by a shooter clearly influenced by Trump’s racist rhetoric, Trump turned the situation into one big photo op.
Rather than trying to console a grieving community, Trump added salt to the wound.
Incredibly, our “so-called” FLOTUS had the bad sense to post, on her Twitter account, the above photo.
This was part of the photo op strategy of Trump visiting patients at the University Medical Center of El Paso who were victims of the gun violence.
It wasn’t learned until sometime after Trump’s visit to the hospital that the victim in the photo, a baby boy who survived the massacre, was not even a patient when Trump showed his face.
The baby, a two-month-old whose parents were killed in the mass shooting shielding their son from the bullets, had been hospitalized and released prior to Thump’s visit. He had to be brought back to the medical center for Trump to pull off his photo op.
Now, anyone with half a brain would not be smiling in a photo with the newly orphaned boy. Nor would he be giving the thumbs up. But when you’re an idiot you just can’t act in any other way.
An interesting side note, the man to the left of Trump is the baby’s uncle, a lifelong Republican. He said he wanted to meet Trump to see if he had “maybe some kind of remorse for statements that he’s made,” presumably the comment about the immigrant “invasion” that the El Paso shooter echoed in his white supremacist manifesto.
Looking at the photo, it’s unlikely the man got the remorse he was looking for from a man with the IQ of a pet rock (my apologies to all the pet rocks out there).
Photo | FLOTUS/ Twitter
