Actually, it sounded like a nervous laugh to me. He probably didn’t instantly know how to handle the comment. But if you want to be offended by it, you are free to be offended.
Are you seriously suggesting that Trump didn’t know how to respond to a suggestion that they should be shot? If that actually is the case, then that is irrefutable proof that Trump is not capable of performing the duties of the office of the President of the USA.
You just keep moving the goalposts dont you! I am not offended just sickened that the President would find this funny.
He has been President for 2 years and before that he led a life in the public and was no strange to public speaking in person or on TV. He cannot claim inexperience on this one.
I am not a politician with zero experience of speaking to large crowds but if I was and someone said “shoot them” I would not laugh (nervous or otherwise) I would call them out and say that sort of talk has no place anywhere in the USA. Its not difficult at all.
The first goal post was to state that Trump should not have laughed, and should have told the lunatic that his suggestion is not how the United States of America handles these types of issues.
The goal posts moved as soon as someone decided to claim that Trump had “nervous laughter and didn’t know how to respond.”
Upset that someone brought that up? I can’t get upset at every yahoo who says something idiotic.
As to Trumpsplaining, I was accused of that for two years while I said many times in different threads that the evidence you people showed about Trump cooperating with Russia in the latest CNN hysteria was not sufficient evidence to say Trump cooperated with the Russians.
And what does your hero, Mueller come out and say after two years? There is not sufficient evidence to prove that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russian interference in our campaign.
I would have thought I was due an apology at that point.
Apology for you Trumpsplaining every stupid Donald Trump says and for his campaign willingly expecting and recieving Russian help in 2016? Don’t make me laugh.
On its own, probably very little. But it is death from a thousand tiny cuts, to me.
I always thought that there was always a certain “line” that all sides agreed should not be crossed when it comes to discourse and behavior of elected officials. We all sort of know politicians are bad by nature due to greed, sexual indiscretions and compulsive lying, amongst other faults. It’s baked into the bread and as a nation we have learned to deal with it.
But there was always lines that were not crossed, and now those lines have been blurred. You don’t insult war heroes, you don’t mock the handicapped, you don’t put kids in cages and you don’t defend Nazis.
These days though, lots on the Right simply don’t care if it happens as long as it upsets folks on the Left. Which, to me, is a sad thing.
I always use the three "I"s to explain unusual behavior in someone, if it can be explained by the "I"s it’s probably the case.
Incompetence
Indifference
Ignorance
Trump displays all 3 "I"s at different points, but his supporters mostly display indifference, they simply do not care.
And the Trump haters have two more years, at least, of taking every statement out of context to try to get Trump. What better example than taking a speech where he says we cannot use armed force to stop illegal immigrants who mob our borders as an example of his encouraging violence against illegal aliens?