Trump jokes with 911 first responders: If the stage collapses they won't fall very far.

[Mrs. Overall]

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Justin Baragona
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Just before signing the 9/11 victims compensation bill, Trump jokes with the first responders and their families that the stage may not hold all of them but that if it collapses they "are not falling very far"

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. He's cratering.

Crumbling before the eye of the camera.

Paging Dr. Bombay!

[VOX]

2. "Made in America-- let's see how well built it is." FUCKING HELL!

Only Trump (and maybe the late Charles Manson) could come up with a “made-in-America-structures collapsing” riff when honoring 911 first responders.

It’s not just careless or tactless, it’s psychotic.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Oh my God, how far down can this guy go?????

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. There is no bottom. He is speeding along the

Highway to Hell.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. No one laughed.

REMARKS

Remarks by President Trump at Signing of H.R. 1327, an Act to Permanently Authorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
NATIONAL SECURITY & DEFENSE

Issued on: July 29, 2019

Rose Garden

10:09 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much, everybody. Please, sit down. Very important day. And we’re gathered this morning at the White House to honor our solemn duty to America’s best, bravest, and finest, who I know so well. In a few moments, I will sign a bipartisan bill to fully reauthorize the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. So, the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund is something you’ve all worked on very hard, and the day has come.

Today, we come together as one nation to support our September 11th heroes, to care for their families, and to renew our eternal vow: Never, Ever Forget.

{snip}

We love you. We honor you. And we thank you. God bless you all. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you.

Now I’m going to sign this bill into law. And I don’t know if the stage will hold it, but if it doesn’t, we’re not falling very far. But I’d like to ask the families and I’d also like to ask the first responders to come up, and we’ll give — we’ll give this stage a shot. Let’s see how well built. Made in America. Let’s see how well built it is. Okay? Come on up.

(The bill is signed.)

(Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.

END

10:22 A.M. EDT

[spanone]

5. Did trump mention that Jon Stewart had to shame his party into passing this bill?

[Nay]

6. Jesus. H. Christ. When, oh, when will this blithering, tone-deaf idiot be jerked off

the stage?

Jokes about 'not falling very far' when hundreds of people died in the towers' falls, and dozens more jumped because they preferred suicide to being burned alive?

Only a psychopath jokes like this. I want all news media to turn their backs on this horrible excuse of a human being.

[Ohiogal]

7. For the love of all that is holy

This man is a tactless, ignorant, fucking idiot.

When will this nightmare ever end?

[exboyfil]

8. Republicans can get away with jokes

that would ruin the careers of Democrats. I still remember that god awful joke by Bush II of a photo of staff members looking for WMDs in the Oval Office. This while our service men and women were dying in Iraq.

[marble falls]

9. Please tell me this is from a comedy site. Jebus crisp.

[qazplm135]

10. Trump followed up his joke with..."too soon?"

No word on whether federal dollars were spent for the rimshot that followed.