This past week we saw a number of incredibly tragic incidents, including a shooting at Brown University, an antisemitic terrorist attack in Australia targeting attendees at a Hanukkah celebration, and the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer.
Trump’s response, after not commenting on the shooting for over 24 hours, was “Things can happen.” Of course, he’ll take zero action to prevent these “things” from happening again. Trump and Republicans want Americans to believe that mass shootings are simply part of the fabric of life in America and that there’s nothing we can do about it. We call BS.
And if that wasn’t disgusting enough, this morning, after the news of Rob Reiner’s and Michele Singer’s deaths broke, Trump made one of the most venomous and vile statements we’ve ever read, saying that they died from “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and that Reiner drove people “crazy.” Trump then rambled on about the “Golden Age of America.” The Rapid Response page of the White House, funded by U.S. tax dollars, then shared the post on social media.
Trump’s statement prompted a massive blowback of condemnation from many celebrities and politicians. The editor at Large of Christianity Today, Russell Moore, put it best:
“How this vile, disgusting, and immoral behavior has become normalized in the United States is something our descendants will study in school, to the shame of our generation.”
We have to agree. Joe and Cosima discuss all this and more, right here on The Siren Network.
