Grotesque, greedy, gullible, graceless, gaslighting, gormless, god-forsaken grifter - Trump thread #147

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Desperately seeking that Peace Prize.
May have to settle for the Hero of the Russian Federation award. Bigly sad.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5372669-still-dancing-the-tariff-tango-vlad-and-bibi-still-playing-him-like-a-fiddle-and-epsteins-list-must-be-written-in-invisible-ink-trump-thread-146

BBC now not reporting the bit about "in the neck", so that might no longer be what is believed.

They're just saying "no word on his condition".

From NYT:
Charlie Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA, the nation’s pre-eminent right-wing youth activist organization, was shot in the neck on Wednesday while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University.
Cellphone videos posted online showed people running from the event after a gunshot rang out. One video appeared to show Mr. Kirk’s head jerking back as blood poured from his neck. He had been delivering remarks while sitting under a tent with the slogan “The American Comeback” printed on it.
A university spokeswoman, Ellen Treanor, said that Mr. Kirk was struck about 20 minutes after he began speaking on campus. She said a suspect had fired at Mr. Kirk from the Losee Center, a building about 200 yards away, and been taken into custody.
The suspect was not a student, she said.
Condition unknown: Ms. Treanor said Mr. Kirk’s security had taken him away after the shooting, and she did not have any information on his condition. Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Turning Point USA, confirmed that Mr. Kirk had been shot in the neck.
Trump comments: President Trump posted on social media in support of Mr. Kirk. “We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot,” he wrote on Truth Social. “A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!”

I feel sorry for his family, but you spend your life lighting fires, expect to get burned.

I wonder if this will alter his views

Latest reporting suggests he is in critical condition

A message from God ?

Live by the gun...

Gun crime is always horrific but it's hard to have sympathy for him, given his previous comments.

Another school shooting as well, Evergreen, Colorado

I'm sure it was how he'd have wanted to go, I understand he thought school shooting were a price worth paying so he'll have considered himself highly lucky to have survived into his 30s.

Oh fucking hell.

The rules in Utah were changed recently to allow firearms to be carried on campus

Trump posted that Kirk has died

Kirk has died.
Violence is never the answer.

How will the Republicans deal with this?

They will ask for thoughts and prayers. What else is there?

Is it too bad to not feel sorry for him?

I just don't want this man turned into a martyr. Because of what he stood for.

thoughts with his wife and small children

The verbal attacks on Democrats and the 'left' have begun

I expect it's all part of God's Great Plan, let's not argue with the Almighty. Excellent opportunity for Bigly to ramp up national security.

My DD just sent me this, I hadn’t realised the full extent of the damage Kirk caused, but violence is never the answer.

Dang, but there’s a lot of headlines vying to keep Epstein at bay.

I think he was one of the MAGAs who wanted the files to be released.

One of the commentators mentioned the number of political killings already this year, and I was actually taken aback.

Can't remember the number, but it included that serial killer working his way through local Democrat legislators who was stopped mid-spree by police.

It seems that, on top of school shootings, shooting politicians the new American thing.

It is very profoundly depressing.

Really? So a shit hot sniper takes out a problem and the victim gets Donnie Darko off the front pages for a couple of days. Pass me my tinfoil hat.

Melissa Hortman was killed only 12 weeks ago

Attacker not yet in custody, so we have no idea who or why.