So typically Trump, doubling down on the confrontation, making it about him. He’s a one-man Westboro Church troll. Only Trump could turn sitting Shiva into a political rally.
"I would prefer if he would wait until we've had the opportunity to have all of the funerals ... That's where our priority is in Pittsburgh."— Mayor Bill Peduto says ahead of President Trump's planned Tuesday visit to Pittsburgh.
"That guy needs to learn that a mayor can't tell a president what to do." (Donald Trump)
Nevertheless, the White House announced Trump would travel to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, ignoring the letter as well as a plea from Pittsburgh’s mayor that the president at least refrain from visiting “while we are burying the dead.” The first of the funerals for the 11 shooting victims is expected to take place Tuesday.
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The fact that Trump would turn a blind eye to the mourning of the people of Pittsburgh so he could rant & rave in front of unfeeling people who shouldn't be there considering what their city is going through is horrifying. #SittingShiva
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It’s another damn stunt, this visit. Lord Dampnut wants some political optics, because he’s been banned from some prominent funerals.
The Washington Post’s Joel Achenbach has a big new story on how the Soros/caravan conspiracy theory pulls off the trifecta of weaving together “anti-Semitism, fear of immigrants and the specter of powerful foreign agents controlling major world events in pursuit of a hidden agenda.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is very mad at the Washington Post for pointing out that Donald Trump's violence-inciting rhetoric seems to actually be inciting violence, and she is zeroing in on the fact that the guy who committed the mass murder in Pittsburgh didn't like Trump all that much because Trump doesn't hate Jews as much as he does:
To be very clear, Donald Trump's campaign and presidency have been chock full of anti-Semitic dogwhistles and air horns, and the extremist far-right assholes he has emboldened really really really hate Jewish people. For God's sake, Trump said there were good people "on both sides" in Charlottesville, after a neo-Nazi murdered an innocent woman. The fact that the Pittsburgh murderer wishes Trump were more openly extremist doesn't really help Sanders's case here.
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