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riversedge

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Mon Mar 18, 2019, 08:48 AM Mar 2019

Trump finds plenty to be outraged about -- aside from New Zealand

Trump is showing the world what a sick, bitter old man he is.



Trump finds plenty to be outraged about -- aside from New Zealand



https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/18/politics/donald-trump-new-zealand-white-supremacy/index.html


Stephen Collinson, CNN Updated 7:44 AM ET, Mon March 18, 2019


(CNN)President Donald Trump spent the weekend venting venom at a bewildering list of targets -- even as much of the rest of the world was still trying to come to terms with a true outrage -- the carnage wrought against Muslims in New Zealand..................

In a stunning display of personal grievances aired on Twitter, Trump demanded the return of a supportive Fox News host who was missing from her usual spot on Saturday after verbally attacking an American Muslim lawmaker. He escalated his beyond-the-grave feud with late Sen. John McCain. He complained at being lampooned by NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Trump also fulminated against the Russia investigation, "Radical Left Democrats" and took shots at an Ohio union boss before demanding a now-closed GM plant in Ohio be reopened or sold..................................



It isn't that it is unusual for this most unconventional of Presidents to hit out at his foes on Twitter. But this weekend's tirade came across as even more jarring given his tepid tone on Friday when he said that he didn't think white supremacy was a growing global problem after the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 50.


And Trump did little to follow through on a request by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, that he show love and sympathy to all Muslims. ....................................

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