My deepest condolences to Mrs. Johnson and her kids for the loss of her husband in service of our country.
I want to further apologize to her for the levels of abuse and vitriol that will be directed her way after this GMA interview.
This is what America has become today. Inconceivable.
This isn’t going to make things better.
It’s so terrible that our discourse has fallen to such a level that she felt it necessary to take this step.
Shame on Trump and Kelly.
God bless this brave and decent woman.
God fuck our commander in chief.
The fact is that we have a president who doesn’t have the foggiest idea of how to speak and conduct himself in many sensitive, interpersonal interactions with regular people.
The problem is that about two-out-of-five Americans have no problem with that, and think it’s just wonderful (maybe even God’s will!) to have the likes of Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
It isn’t bad enough how he’s continually exploited the military service he and his family have never done themselves. No, after all that wrapping himself in a gaudy fake patriotism, when it comes time to thank a widow for her husband’s sacrifice, he can’t be bothered to read the name beforehand, he can’t be bothered to do that much work. All the laziness, cynicism, and bottomless absence of empathy come together in that moment. I wish this woman didn’t have to go on TV and relive all this. But he made an issue of it.
Watch, just watch!
Trump will tweet today that the widow is lying, he never said those things and it’s all a Democratic ploy!
Jeesh, the Dotard-In-Chief’s moniker doesn’t even begin to cover this effin’ moron’s missteps!
Trump will triple down and call her a liar in 5, 4, 3…
Meanwhile, Mueller’s team keeps working…
@machoneman beat me to it!
And the sad part is it could have been made better.
If that ignorant unfeeling fuck in the White House had just apologized.
“I sorry that I was unable to express myself properly my deepest condolences to the widow”
But No
He has to attack her and keep attacking her and get Kelly involved in attacking her.
I would ask “What the fuck is wrong with him”
but we all know the answer don’t we?
I hope Donald Trump goes after a black, female, grieving Gold Star widow. May he tweet something stupendously vile and hurtful. Make my month, Donnie, please.
You’re late to the party, aren’t you?
Isn’t this the first time he has used the man’s name?
Trump was made to phone her, and I am sure he resented it. Trump is selfish, self centered, and is NOT NORMAL. Trump can pretend empathy when he wants to, but obviously it was missing when he made that phone call.
Hope? Hey, he’s already late this a.m. doing just what you said he’d do. 3-2-1…
As if on cue …
SHS day just went from merely horrible to living nightmare. Good … I hope she gets roasted by April Ryan of American Urban Radio Network.
Trump: I told you all, she is black.
Want to bet this isn’t the last “whitesplaining” tweet of the morning?
Once again, Trump makes the front page of BBC news:
Oh no … there will be several more this morning, no doubt.
Its amazing isn’t it, he sees her talk on TV then tweets about it calling her a liar. This tweet following a lie about the Republican tax plan and attacking the NFL again.
Good catch. He has been using vague pronouns and job/position words.