George Floyd's brother tears up discussing condolence phone call from Trump: 'It hurt me'

[soothsayer]

Sounds like it didn’t help much.

Snip: “It was so fast,” Floyd replied.

“He didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak. It was hard, I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept like pushing me off, like ‘I don’t want to hear what you’re talking about.’ And I just told him I want justice. I said that I couldn’t believe they committed a modern-day lynching.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/george-floyds-brother-tears-up-discussing-condolence-phone-call-from-trump-it-hurt-me/

[Walleye]

1. I don't think I would've been polite.

I’d much prefer condolences from Joe Biden.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Isn't that more or less what happened when Trump offered his "condolences"

to the widow of the soldier who was killed in Niger? She was so upset by the conversation that she was in tears because Fatso said something about "it was what he signed up for." He has all the sensitivity of a toilet seat.

[JHB]

6. They engineer toilet seats to have more sensitivity than that.

"Trump" and "condolences" go together about as well as "ground glass" and "baby food." Just, no! Even the attempt is poison.

[Corgigal]

13. Which

was one of my original heartbreak. He didn’t know his full name, and told her he knew what he signed up for. The whole time she was 8 months pregnant.

Broke my heart, and I gave her some funding on her PayPal account. It isn’t much, but I felt so sorry for her.

[bullwinkle428]

19. BINGO! The very first thing that I thought of.

[Nevilledog]

3. I wish he would have recorded the call.

No doubt trump's arrogance would not surprise us, but it would have been interesting to see how the public at large would feel.

[HipChick]

4. I would not have taken the call..

or just introduced him to Mr.Click in his ear..and hung up on him

[pnwest]

9. me niether. Or maybe just long enough to shout fuck you and hang up.

[GopherGal]

18. Air Horn

Isn't this the kind of situation air horns are made for?
Telemarketers and fat orange gas-bags?

[Caliman73]

5. Trump is incapable of empathy

If it isn't about him and how great he is, then he just isn't interested. I wouldn't accept a call from Trump except to attack him for being a racist asshole.

[gratuitous]

7. Trump intervened in a bad situation and made it worse?

Who's surprised?

[zentrum]

8. Used him. This is abuse.

[DIVINEprividence]

10. Not business as usual

We are in an existential crisis. The enemy is clear as an unmuddy lake. Left left - center left unite. This is fcking War! Do you UNDERSTAND??? We are the party of Lincoln now. The GOP have abandoned Lincoln

[kacekwl]

11. Useless in every way. Didn't

trump say he already contacted the family days ago ?

[Initech]

12. He expected Trump to have a sensitive side?

[Dukkha]

14. No doubt his phone call tone

had all the empathy of a scolded brat kid forced by his father to stand on a neighbor's porch to apologize. Did he even bother to tun off Faux News in the room before dialing?

[Alex4Martinez]

15. Trump called George's brother for a reason, and for one reason only...

...to be able to congratulate himself later that he had been in touch with the family.

That is the only reason and he probably resented calling at all.

[Marrah_Goodman]

16. Shame there is not a recording

[DinahMoeHum]

17. It seems Joe Biden got to the Floyd family first. . .

. . .while Trump had to be cajoled into doing so.

Biden apparently spoke with the family - Trump spoke down to the family.
Big difference.




#newrostrong

[Blue Owl]

20. No consolation like that of a narcissistic psycho asshole

n/t

[DesertRat]

21. k&r