In an awkward attempt to show empathy to Uvalde victims at the NRA convention held days after the massacre, Donald Trump struggled through a list of the young victims’ names, with each followed by a bizarre Hunger Games gong. He then immediately launched into a speech that called reasonable efforts to put a halt to selling assault rifles to 18-year-olds “grotesque.” Trump predictably blamed everything but guns for gun violence: liberal teachers, school administrators, and “broken homes.” (Trump, of course, has left two of his wives—so far.)
Trump also reminded NRA members that he still thinks they are awesome, because in his warped mind, it’s the gun nuts who need the consoling after a massacre, not those impacted by it.
Somehow, though, the speech got even worse.
This was how his speech ended:
Of course, crassness is nothing new for Trump. As a reminder of how awful he has always been, this is Trump during a tasteless photo op with a baby who was orphaned after the El Paso massacre, behaving like the baby is a donor at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser.
Then there’s Trump in the wake of the Parkland massacre.
Wow. What Lucy said.
Although every speaker at the NRA horror show predictably said that the answer to gun violence is more guns, guns were banned at the convention. It was literally the only gun-free zone in Texas, making it clear that even the NRA doesn’t believe what it’s peddling.
Rot in hell, NRA.
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