The True Toll Of Donald Trump's Words

[marmar]

(HuffPost) Saturday morning, President Donald Trump attacked a Democratic Senate candidate on Twitter, calling her a “Nancy Pelosi Wacko!”

Just a short while later, speaking about the horrific shooting massacre in Pittsburgh that killed at least 11 people, Trump lamented, “It’s a terrible, terrible thing what’s going on with hate in our country… It’s a violent world. You think when you’re over it, it just goes away but then it comes back in the form of a madman, a wacko.”

Within a few hours, the president of the United States applied the term “wacko” to one of the most accomplished public servants in our nation’s history and then used precisely the same term for a deranged murderer.

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The events of the past week has revealed the true toll that Trump’s words are having on our society. And I am afraid it is only going to get worse.

The scariest thing isn’t that Trump says what he says, it’s that there are those who cheer him for it. Who believe it when he says the free press is “the enemy of the people.” Who laugh when he mocks a disabled reporter. Who chant “lock her up” after Hillary Clinton was mailed an explosive device. Who look the other way when reports surface revealing how foreign powers are eavesdropping on the president’s cell phone conversations because he refuses to use a secure line. Who applaud when he attacks victims of sexual assault. Who would rather militarize schools and churches than consider any reform to our nation’s gun laws. .............(more)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-synagogue-shooting_us_5bd596eee4b0d38b58846474

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

1. This is the worst thing about Trump.

He either doesn't understand how much his words matter or he doesn't care. It might be a mix of both. I think it is more that he doesn't care.

[dalton99a]

2. Yep. He equated Nancy Pelosi to Robert Bowers

[mtnsnake]

3. Yes, Trump has brought the worst possible maggots in society out of the woodwork

and placed them all on pedestals. Sickening.