Little Rock shooting played out as Donald Trump tweeted more garbage about Morning Joe and Greta
Early this morning, reports came in from across the board that seventeen people (later updated to twenty-five and then twenty-eight people) had been hurt in a shooting at a club last night in Little Rock, Arkansas. The good news: it’s since been confirmed that no one died, and that all of the victims are expected to recover. The bad news: the incident served as further confirmation that there is no President of the United States.
News of the shooting was everywhere by early this morning. For instance CBS News tweeted about it at 7:12am eastern time (link). But either Donald Trump is too cut off from America to have learned of the news, or he did hear about it and he felt it wasn’t important enough to mention. Instead, at around 9:00am, he decided to begin tweeting yet more garbage about various cable news hosts.
Trump started with “Word is that Greta Van Susteren was let go by her out of control bosses at NBC & Comcast because she refused to go along w/ ‘Trump hate!'” – and unfounded claim that he appears to have simply made up. Then he baselessly accused various states of an imaginary voter fraud conspiracy. Then he attacked CNN for being “fake news.” Then, for the third morning in a row, he launched a vicious personal attack on the Morning Joe co-hosts: “Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!”
Nowhere in any of Trump’s tweets was any mention of the Little Rock shooting – even though at the time it was believed that the lives of several Americans were on the line. Eventually the news surfaced that everyone survived. But America received that information from the Associated Press (link) at 11:45am, and not from its President, who still hasn’t mentioned the shooting. Because, as Donald Trump keeps demonstrating, there is no President of the United States.
