Mother of School-Shooting Victim: Meeting Trump Was 'Like Talking to a Toddler'

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/mother-of-shooting-victim-meets-trump-likens-him-to-toddler.html

President Trump traveled to Texas Thursday to meet with two dozen people affected by the latest mass shooting at an American school, and at least one of them was not pleased with the interaction.

Rhonda Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter was one of ten people killed at Santa Fe High School on May 18, was among the two dozen people to meet with Trump. Hart told the Associated Press that Trump did not impress her during their interaction, and repeatedly referred to 17-year-old suspected shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis as “wacky.”

Hart, an Army veteran, said she also suggested employing veterans as sentinels in schools. She said Trump responded, “And arm them?” She replied, “No,” but said Trump “kept mentioning” arming classroom teachers. “It was like talking to a toddler,” Hart said.

In the days after her daughter’s murder, Hart began speaking out about gun control, telling People, “All I want to say is that the wrong child left this world. They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I want to be an advocate.”

[Gothmog]

1. From Steve Benen

Link to tweet

[maxrandb]

13. When he attacks this mother who lost her child

and Army Vet on Twitter, we can rest assured THAT THE FUCKING RETRUMPLICANS AND HATE RADIO TALKERS WILL SMEAR HER AS WELL

Just fuck this entire fucked up fucking country. We fucking suck. Just look at who is fucking leading us.

[NewJeffCT]

25. yes - I expect some RWers to doxx her

by the end of the day today. Death threats likely by the weekend.

[Cracklin Charlie]

15. He should not put hand to ear.

Makes his hands look tiny.

Weirdo.

[bullwinkle428]

16. I didn't even notice until you pointed it out, but WOW!! They really are

freakishly small, and totally goes to that particular insecurity!

[Tipperary]

2. He has no empathy. He has no intelligence.

Toddlers can exhibit both of those qualities.

[ailsagirl]

23. He has no soul. He sold it a long time ago.

[NewJeffCT]

27. Didn't Angela Merkel

have to tell him over 10 times that he could not make a trade deal with just Germany, it had to be with all of the EU together? That's got to be annoying for her.

[bettyellen]

34. He's stupid and a sociopath. They have a hard time accepting the word "No" and

Can be compulsive about bending people to their will.
(Hi Aunt Peggy! )

[KelleyKramer]

44. Yes, and when they met the press he refused to shake hands

That was the same meeting when they went out to meet the press he refused to shake her hand. He sat there with his arms crossed, like an 8 year old spoiled brat.

[progressoid]

3. Toddler in Chief.

[meadowlark5]

4. He's a heartless, unfeeling clod

Why his stupid followers think he has the country and them in his best interests puzzles me.

He shows no sign of actual feelings of anything except anger and outrage. But most of them are filled with nothing but anger and outrage so maybe that's why.

[DBoon]

32. His followers do not care about their best interests

Trump hates the same people they do. That's all that matters.

[stanleyollie]

5. Hopeless to even talk to him

He is never going to change any gun laws, the ticket we need in 2020 is Booker-Yates

[brush]

9. Booker/Yates might work. And there are others. We have a deep bench for 2020.

[Hortensis]

6. "We are going to Dallas, we are going to Houston.

We are going to have a little fun today. Thank you." Trump heading for Texas after the murders of 10 and wounding of another 14 by the "wacky" shooter.

Does anyone doubt this man has some important pieces miswired or missing?

[Ilsa]

26. Holy crap. Just wow. How can anyone be so fucking insensitive?

Barack Obama hugged and cried with families. He was Comforter-in-Chief. IQ45 is a boor. A clown that is neither entertaining or funny. He should have sent banged-up Melania.

[Hortensis]

29. Poor Melania. People who don't have normal feelings learn to

hide it by copying others and pretending; but being so extremely wealthy all his life he's apparently never needed to be consistently careful. If backlash is a bother and he feels like it, he knows how to sound normal in followup.

[Initech]

7. He is such a worthless piece of shit.

[dhill926]

8. pretty much sums it up...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. I gotta say. Even shit serves a purpose and it can also be used to grow good things. nt

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[IronLionZion]

18. At least shit can be fertilizer

this orange tub of lard would probably kill any plants for a lack of nutrients

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. 😆 great description 👍n/t

[rurallib]

14. Rhonda hart on Stephanie right now

[Ohiogal]

17. He is a disgrace and a huge embarrassment

Also a worthless POS

[NastyRiffraff]

19. But he had "a little fun"

and that's the important thing.

[GusBob]

20. Wacky kid in a wacky coat

Sorry your kid is dead

BUT LOOKIT THE CUTE NAMES I CAN DO MA-MA

[niyad]

21. didn't he say something about "having fun" going to meet the grieving families?

he cannot even pretend to empathy, first, because he has none, and, second, because he believes it to be a weakness.

[niyad]

22. I think that is an insult to toddlers.

[DinahMoeHum]

24. ". . .the wrong child left this world. . ."

Hey, the mother said it, not me.

I leave it to you to interpret this.

[generalbetrayus]

30. I think she meant that if the gun lovers thought the parents of the victims would be silent

in the aftermath of the shooting, that she, for one, would not be silent, and become a vocal advocate for gun control.

[JI7]

38. Don't look into it more than it is. She just meant that this has made her into a huge

Activist for gun control and taking on the pro gun nuts.

[CakeGrrl]

28. "He says things in a way I can understand."

That is what one of his supporters said about him when she was interviewed.

When he uses monosyllabic, simplistic pronouncements in his tweets, it must be repeated, he is addressing his base.

On the whole, they are ignorant of the workings of the U.S. government and politics and they believe whatever they are told at Trump rallies. They love him because he's white, authoritarian, and a bully.

This is another reason Republicans seek to undermine the U.S. education system: Keep the public ignorant, and they're easier to mislead and manipulate.

[PearliePoo2]

31. Where's a well-placed, Texas sized, lightning bolt when we really need one?

Mother Nature? PLEASE can you rid us of this beast?

[matt819]

33. Read the full article

How is it that one person - Rhonda Hart - sees a toddler and another - Pamela Stanich - sees a man of sincerity, compassion, and solutions?

I'm stumped. Now perception of grief and compassion is guided by political affiliation?

And the killer was wacky? No, you fucking moron, Jim Jeffries in his standup act is wacky. Steve Martin doing his banjo routine is wacky. The Blues Brothers were wacky. This guy was a white supremacist mass murderer. Look it up. There's a really big difference between the two.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

35. Boggles the mind. Have you read about the woman in IN. Whose

husband was deported to Mexico? No criminal history. Productive member of his community. Obama's protections, if I understand correctly would've covered him. Yet his crazy ass wife doesn't blame the Moron. Because in her words. He's also deporting all the criminals.

[matt819]

36. I hadn't seen that.

Well, we no longer have to wonder how Germany became Germany in the 1920s and 30s.

Mania. Psychosis. Hate.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

39. Indeed. Here's the story if you want to subject yourself to

this brain numbing idiocy:

https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/hubby-deported-but-cindy-garcia-refuses-to-bash-trump/

[JI7]

40. Hart served in the military. I'm guessing the other woman

Is from a right wing religious type place and maybe has never really been independent.

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. The thing is, he didn't really travel to TX to see the families

He came here, at taxpayer's expense, for a couple of $5K per plate fundraisers. He didn't travel to their community, Sante Fe, to visit the families of victims or victims who are in the hospital. He made the families come to HIM, at Ellington Field, which is 20 miles from Santa Fe.

[rickford66]

41. My dog and cat have more empathy

[Liberalagogo]

42. Puh-lease

Every inanimate object in my house has more empathy.

[cheezmaka]

43. I know more GANGSTERS that have empathy than him....

one word....PATHETIC