Trump regularly denounces acts of mass murder—unless the murderer is white
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It sure is interesting how Donald Trump can find time to tweet condolences after acts of mass murder even in other countries, but can't muster up a single thing to say when the violence is perpetrated by a white American. Trump, as we've long chronicled in tTrump regularly denounces acts of mass murder—unless the murderer is white
It sure is interesting how Donald Trump can find time to tweet condolences after acts of mass murder even in other countries, but can't muster up a single thing to say when the violence is perpetrated by a white American. Trump, as we've long chronicled in this space, has no problem taking to Twitter to denounce even a trace of jihadist perfidy somewhere in the world. The acts of often isolated Islamist extremists repeatedly prompt him to cast suspicion on whole communities of Muslims at home and abroad, and form the basis of his apathy toward Syrian refugees as well as calls for sweeping immigration bans. But Trump has been far more circumspect about nativist or white nationalist hate crimes, which have seen a worrying uptick under his watch. He even struggled to condemn committed neo-Nazis who rallied in his name last year, describing some of them as «very fine people.» The Washington Post writer notes Trump's conspicuous failure in the last few days to mention the conviction of a Kansas trio who plotted to bomb a mosque and the upcoming sentencing of a white nationalist who killed six in a mass shooting in Quebec, but Trump also can't seem to muster any words over the killing of four in a Waffle House in Tennessee, either. That act was perpetrated by white man who claimed to be a «sovereign citizen» and who, reports indicate, suffered from extreme paranoia and delusions; by coincidence or by design his victims were all non-white. The hero of the day, James Shaw Jr., is a black American who rushed the shooter and disarmed him before he could kill others. There could be a lot of explanations for Trump's conspicuous silence. Read more