Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ about uniting US after Charlie Kirk killing | Donald Trump
Donald Trump said that he “does not care” to bring America together and repair the country’s divisions following the assassination of his close partner, right -wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Friday morning, in an interview on Fox & Friends, the American president was invited to what he intended to do to heal the injuries of the Kirk shooting in Utah. “How do we distribute this country?” How can we come together? ” It was requested by the program co-host, Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of American politics.
Less than 48 hours after Kirk was killed in broad daylight on the University of Utah Valley campus, Trump replied: “I tell you something that will cause me trouble, but I don’t care.”
He continued: “The radicals on the right are radical because they do not want to see the crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically wise. They want men in female sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that has happened to this country.”
The refusal to seek a common path at a time of deep national anger, fear and mourning was an astonishing decision for an in -office president, even according to Trump’s standards.
America has a long history of presidents who have used their rhetorical powers to try to overcome political cracks. The summit was perhaps the second inaugural speech of Abraham Lincoln towards the end of the civil war, in which he sought to “link the wounds of the nation” and wanted to seek unity “malicious towards none, with charity for all”.
More recently, Joe Biden used his inaugural speech in 2021, just a few days after Trump’s insurrection of supporters at the American Capitol on January 6, to call to unity, without which he said: “There is no peace, only bitterness and fury”.
Trump’s appearance on Fox News clearly indicated that he did not intend to follow this rhetorical tradition. Instead, the tenor of his response to the Kirk shooting was hyper-partisan and based on remuneration.
In Friday’s comments, he threatened the philanthropist George Soros with a Rico investigation on the type normally reserved for organized crime. He accused Soros of funding “professional agitators” who engaged in “more than protest, it is a real agitation, these are riots in the streets”.
In a speech on the oval office, pronounced hours after Kirk was declared dead, Trump made threatening remarks indicating that he would take revenge on “organizations that finance and support” political violence. He blamed the current spell entirely on what he called the “radical left”.
The president has already used his second mandate in the White House to increase the heat of those he considers his political enemies. He authorized an investigation into the main fundraising channel for the Democratic Party, Actblue and threatened to cancel the exempt status of tax groups such as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) and environmental groups.
