The Great Divider: Trump Says He Hates His Opponents at Charlie Kirk Memorial

The President bringing down the temperature of rhetoric: “I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them."

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Well, if this isn’t cooling the political rhetoric, I don’t know what would.

Donald Trump claimed that Charlie Kirk did not hate his opponents but rather wished the “the best” for them, adding that this was the difference between them because Trump hates his opponents and doesn’t want the best for them.

The President: “I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry. I am sorry Erika, but now Erika can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that’s not right, but I can’t stand my opponents.”

Trump speaks at the 4:23 ish mark:

Ah yes. The president “bringing America together” by focusing on anger and division at a memorial as the widow of Charlie Kirk made a statement of forgiveness.

But wait. Trump also made time to whine about the backlash sparked by the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and of course got in a bit about sending troops to Chicago, blasted the “radical left”, and attacked former President Joe Biden, who is fighting cancer.

There is nothing Trump loves more than his grievances and self-pity, and not even a grieving widow can distract him from his feelings.

It’s also unclear that Charlie Kirk didn’t hate his opponents, after all, he wanted at least some of them to be executed. Is execution for no reason no longer a sign of hatred?

This probably explains why mega churches were playing fake videos of Charlie Kirk saying things he never said, in yet more attempts to rewrite the reality of his life.

Megachurches played AI versions of Kirk, possibly because they couldn’t find him saying anything aspirational and they were trying to make him into the white MLK, Jr, because nothing says civil rights hero like saying the Civil Rights Act shouldn’t have been passed.

The truth is, Kirk was a hater and so is Donald Trump. But Kirk seemed to actually believe in the values he espoused, whereas Trump just uses conservative “values” (i.e., racism, misogyny, “small government”, etc) to manipulate his base.

Donald Trump is the original hater, and not even a memorial can stop him from petting his resentments and stoking his hatred in public, nurturing and sniffing them like a truffle hog on the prowl.

We await Jake Tapper explaining to us that this is just Trump’s “personality,” as if that makes his behavior somehow less problematic because it defines his entire personality.

Donald Trump is the great divider. If he’s speaking, he’s weakening America.

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