Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: 'He was blaming the community'
Source: The Washington Post
By Moriah Balingit, Avi Selk and Mark Berman October 30 at 10:31 AM
PITTSBURGH A mourning family doesnt want to meet him. Top members of his own party refuse to join him. The mayor has explicitly asked him not to come. And yet President Trump plans to visit this grief-stricken city Tuesday, amid accusations that he and his administration continue to fuel the anti-Semitism that inspired Saturdays massacre inside a synagogue.
The president and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to arrive in the late afternoon, several hours after the first funerals are held for the 11 victims of the mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue. More than 1,000 people have so far signed up for a demonstration at the same time declaring Trump unwelcome in our city and in our country.
Congressional leaders from both parties Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) have all declined invitations to join Trump on his visit, according to three officials familiar with matter. So has at least one of the victims' families.
Trump offered to visit with the family of Daniel Stein, a 71-year-old who had just become a grandfather when he was gunned down at Tree of Life. Steins nephew, Stephen Halle, said the family declined. It was in part because of the comments Trump made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when he suggested the synagogue should have had an armed guard.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/30/despite-calls-stay-away-trump-heads-pittsburgh-after-synagogue-massacre/
Gotta love this:
janterry
(4,429 posts)Some things, you just don't do.
This is one of them.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Wander around Squirrel Hill by himself?
getagrip_already
(14,837 posts)of the pgh airport. There is plenty of room, the airport is lightly used since usair pulled out and it is no longer a hub.
brush
(53,847 posts)getagrip_already
(14,837 posts)there is the old airport, but I don't think it's in use.
Really, pgh is an international airport, very modern and large, and largely unused.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)accomodate AF-1.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)and complain how it's the toughest donut he ever ate (you've got to know Squirrel Hill - and you'll understand what an ASS IQ45 is!) ((well, you don't really need to "know Squirrel Hill" to understand what an ASS IQ45 is )).
calimary
(81,466 posts)One possible exception to your statement. I doubt hed buy a bagel. Hed expect it to be given to him for free.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 30, 2018, 01:32 PM - Edit history (1)
Because it is all about him -- and it's what he does.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)I hope the shunning by officials and families is universal and humiliating, and I hope the demonstrations are large, loud and effective.
In God's name: how much of this evil man's shit are we supposed to eat?
charliea
(260 posts)I want a cell phone recording of someone closing a door in his face...
That's the PR I would like to see!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)her "I don't care" jacket?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)bedazzled
(1,769 posts)Everyone knows it so they don't want to be near him
cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)Is going to be all about him!
AJT
(5,240 posts)but he did manage to get members of victims families from Parkland to meet with him. Even if no one in the congregation will meet with him he'll just find someone to lie and say they are members.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)members of his own party don't want be anywhere within miles of him these days.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)they need to shame him!
Moostache
(9,897 posts)He has no conscience and no sense of propriety. You have to have those things to even feel shame...
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)RIP in this very sad moment.
Soxderrube
(37 posts)He likes to inspect his work, and he is just getting started. If the midterms fail to get the house he will be stepping it up.
amcgrath
(397 posts)No reception, no cameras, no service of any kind offered to any of the entourage.
The last thing mourners deserve is Trump turning this into his day and distracting from their loss.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)back on that basis alone.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)They should remind him of how he treated Illinois Republican governor, Rauner, when he spoke here a day or two ago -- 45 completely ignored him, left him in the crowd as just another dude.
They should turn him back based solely on safety and security issues. He'd still use that against them, since every action people take for themselves is against Mr. All-About-Me.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)to cause total traffic gridlock for this afternoon's rush hour.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)I'm sure DC can find a garden where the worms are friendly and would not mind your red hat of hat-red. That is after you are hopefully shunned as the cretins you both are.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Im sure what hirts Trump most in all of this is that Bowers was disappointed in him. Maybe he meets with him so he can find out what he has to do to make Bowers happy.
Of course hes going to blame the media for the attacks too.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)"Let trump be trump", a great idea. snark
elmac
(4,642 posts)the moron will probably start throwing bullet proof vests to the Pittsburgh crowd .
NCDem47
(2,250 posts)I think it was the mayor who said to wait a week, but nooooooooo. He has to do it NOW. He won't give a shit about the victim families or Pittsburgh after next Tuesday.
He wants it both ways before the midterms:
1. A wink and nod to anti-Semties with his actions and words so far
2. Fake sympathy to look barely human to voter fence-sitters.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)That lasts 7 days or until the Sabbath which ever comes first. He would probably take the coverings off of the mirrors so he can look at himself.
Harker
(14,034 posts)is a musical instrument.
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)He doesnt care who he violates.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)Everyone I know has some connection to someone who was related to a victim, or worked at a nearby hospital, or was locked down in a nearby synagogue. This is a hurt community and Trump is just rubbing salt in our wounds.