Trump's politicised reaction to New York attack a far cry from Las Vegas shooting

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump's politicised reaction to New York attack a far cry from Las Vegas shooting

President reacted to New York attack by targeting Chuck Schumer for sponsoring diversity immigrant visa program under which Sayfullo Saipov entered US

David Smith in Washington
Wednesday 1 November 2017 17.15 GMT

One prompted a sombre tone, quotation from scripture and prayer for unity. The other brought a barrage of tweets, peppered with capital letters and exclamation marks and bent on divisiveness and blame.

Donald Trump had sharply contrasting responses to the mass shooting in Las Vegas and the terrorist attack in New York that bookended the month of October.

The morning after Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rifle rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, killing 58 people at a country music concert, Trump was at his most presidential, stating from the diplomatic room at the White House: “In moments of tragedy and horror, America comes together as one – and it always has.”

But when it came to solutions, the president offered little more than looking at gun control laws “as time goes by”.

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Trump rattled off several tweets in the immediate aftermath and, on Wednesday, went highly personal and political, raising the prospect of sending the suspect to Guantánamo Bay and taking aim at the Democratic Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and an immigration lottery programme he helped design.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/01/trump-criticizes-democrats-after-reports-visa-program-admitted-alleged-attacker

[malaise]

1. Because 59 dead people don't matter more than the NRA

or Muslim hatred

[Fred Sanders]

2. Got his Muslim-bashing cue from FoxPravda and off he went with the daily script.

[anneboleyn]

4. Yep. Brown Muslim guy vs White not Muslim guy (Vegas). The difference is very clear.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Try the Religious beliefs thing.

[malaise]

5. Chris Hayes started with this n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Donald Trump is such a fake and

loves to throw the Religion angle to his personal use. And his outrage is aimed at his detractors and persons of Color. Funny thing,this Fellow is actually a Caucasian. But,because he follows the Muslim Faith,well,he is fair game .

[Initech]

7. Or as Family Guy put it:

[Fred Sanders]

8. Also used as a handy guide by the media as a whole.