Trump Flashes Thumbs Up In Picture With Baby Orphaned By Shooting

In a jarring image tweeted from first lady Melania Trump’s account, she and President Donald Trump grin, the latter flashing a thumbs up, as they pose with a baby orphaned by the mass shooting in El Paso.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1241548

Jesus H Christ on a stick.

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What kind of disgusting piece of shit smiles like this in this situation? Can we impeach the motherfucker yet?

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It’s never been truer that a picture is worth a thousand words. Donnie and Melania deserve each other - if she ever decides to turn on him, it will be brutal.

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“How you treat the least among you is how you treat me”

                                                   Jesus
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I do not understand. There are HIPPA laws and all manner of laws protecting confidentiality of identity and other information about minors on Federal Court Electronic Filing System documents. But this child was used as a prop for a photo op by Donald and Melania Trump? Who gave the consent? I do not expect Trump or Melania to realize their own tastelessness. But this is a violation of the child’s rights and privacy. Who gave the consent? Who brought the child to the hospital if he was no longer there for his injuries? What is our Media doing, other than reporting on the Photo Ops? Fucking People Magazine journalism we have in this country.

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More and more people are hopefully realizing that Trump is solely in this for the power and the accompanying effect on his brand. Anyone who thinks he give a tinker’s damn about the country or its people are fooling themselves, deluded.

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Worst. President. Ever.

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…and Trump drew widespread condemnation for his treatment of a hospital tour like a glossy photo-op.

“It’s all about meeeeeeee all the time!”

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“You’re one lucky kid. To have a photo op with me, I mean. Where are you parents? In a graveyard in El Paso? Oh, I know that place very well. Had a great rally there. Throngs of people, biggest crowd ever. You’re welcome.”

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Pig

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Who could pass up the chance to snap a selfie with a real orphan-baby?!

He’ll Be able to cherish this moment with Melania, and Steve Miller, Seb Gorky and everyone!

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Can you imagine Barack Obama visiting Newtown, giving the thumbs-up and smiling widely in photos?

Or the reaction if he actually did…? (Fox & Friends: “He flashed gang signs!”)

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Mr & Mrs Inciter-In-Chief are all grins and thumbs up sign while holding the baby they helped being turned into an orphan with hateful & racists rhetorics!

Inciter-In-Chief is
Keeping
America
Gruesome & Grotesque

And the violence/domestic terrorism continues:

  1. New attempt at mass shooting in another Walmart in Springfield MI:
  1. Another hate crime in Sterling OH against an inter-racial couple, vandalism with swastika and home blown up- miscegenation has commenced again!
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Meanwhile, ICE is defending the raids in Mississippi that same day, claiming the White House wasn’t notified. Sure, although I can believe it was kept from Trump.

The operation was so closely guarded that ICE officials did not even inform the White House before it began, according to Matthew Albence, the agency’s acting director, and other administration officials. Because previous plans for high-profile ICE raids had been disrupted by public disclosure — including tweets from President Trump telegraphing them — the agency this time stealthily streamed 600 agents to Mississippi, many flown from other parts of the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-defends-secretive-miss-ice-raids-as-local-state-officials-decry-effect-on-children/2019/08/08/485d6240-ba21-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

Everyone knows Trump is a blabbermouth.

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Trump’s instincts are consistently awkward, inappropriate, stupid, insensitive, sick and twisted.

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Sociopath. No one and no thing is safe.

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The uncle bought his nephew (the infant) to the hospital. He’s a Trump supporter and so was his brother.

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In a beige suit.

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“Babies are excellent human shields,” the World’s Most Beloved Head of State thought to himself.

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