President Donald Trump didn’t invite Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (D) to a White House ceremony on Monday honoring the police officers who responded to the deadly shooting in the Ohio city last month.
This is, of course, petty, divisive, and really weak.
Fortunately, I can report to the Mayor that the Big Macs were cold and the pizza soggy. And that Trump thinks he should get a medal for his heroic acts of bravery in Dayton.
The freaking Taliban get an invite to Camp David…on the week of 9/11, but he won’t invite a Mayor of an American city devastated by a gun massacre to the White House. This is seriously deranged.
The mayor of Toledo, also a Democrat, was not invited either.
ETA: Imagine being the kind of person who gets a kick out of doing something like this, again and again. It makes him feel important and powerful, and feeds his narcissism.
But seriously, Trump doesn’t care one whit for America’s values and ideals. As you point out, he has more in common with theocrats and autocrats than his fellow Americans. And he’s made that abundantly clear. He’s shunned our Intelligence agencies, devastated the DoJ, and behaves as if Democrats are enemies of the country. The next step is ours collectively, and I can’t wait for November, 2020.