So, when there is a mass shooting, a killer truck or van, or some store, mall, or some gathering place open to the public anywhere in the world that a gun man attacks, Trump’s thumbs get all excited because it is obvious, if only to him, that, since the attacker might be a Muslim or anyone any shade other than White, it was a terrorist attack, and while condemning it for that reason he also condemns the leaders of the place where it happened for being weak, the respective country for letting in immigrants, and the United States for not having a wall.
In instances where, domestically, the shooter is a White guy, he is quick to dismiss any terrorist attack as the result of someone with a mental illness problem who acted alone and should somehow receive some degree of our pity.
Whichever way it goes his response is quick, decisive, and supportive of his agenda.
Well, not all the time.
After the gunman entered the Nashville, Tennessee Waffle House, killing four people and wounding many others, and was disarmed by james Shaw Jr., a Black man who had no gun, and then in the days after raised more than $200,000 for the families of those he was unable to save, not only did Trump not mention the shooting or the victims, he did not say anything about Shaw’s heroic act.
This is in stark contrast to the immediate praise he heaped on the white man who confronted a Texas church shooter and exchanged gunfire with him.
White shooter, White victims, White hero and then tweets.
White shooter, Black victims, Black hero and then no tweets.
This contrast has been noticed by many in the media, social media, and in water cooler conversations, and when asked about the silence 9 days after the Waffle House incident, Sarah Huckabee Sanders informed the press that the White House has finally begun an “outreach effort” to bring Shaw to Washington.
“My understanding is that there has been an outreach effort to bring him here. I will keep you updated on that as I have more information.”
However, when he was asked about this after the press briefing, Shaw told reporter Yashar Ali that he has not yet heard from the White House.
Trump’s silence on Mr. Shaw wass bad enough when, after a fan blade from a Boeing 737’s engine broke off shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia shattering the window near a passenger who later died, and the Pilot managed to successfully land the plane in Philadelphia without further injuries, Trump was quick to praise the pilot with,
“Tammie did an incredible job. Everybody’s talking about it. They’re still talking about it, they’ll be talking about it for a long time”,
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“MAGA!”, Trump wrote when he tweeted the picture.
This all leaves one to wonder that if the unarmed man who saved lives by disarming a shooter who had an AR15 had only been wearing a MAGA hat, would he already have been praised by Trump tweets and been invited to the White House making the “outreach effort” Sarah Sanders Huckabee referred to unnecessary.