Rachel Maddow Points Out That Mentally Gone Trump Made El Paso Hospital Visit All About Himself

Rachel Maddow pointed out that Trump and the White House hyped the hospital visit to El Paso shooting victims, and then Trump made the visit all about himself.

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Maddow said:

Nevertheless, the president did go to both cities today, although it was very interesting. While he made these visits, he kept a very low profile in both of these cities and particularly, he stayed away from the public. In El Paso, the president went directly from the airport to El Paso’s University Medical Center, where survivors of the shooting are being treated and where at least five of the shooting’s victims remain in critical condition in the ICU. Oddly, the president and the White House communication team tried to hype this hospital visit in El Paso today as if it was like a poll or a rally or something.

The White House communications team today tweeting about how they thought everybody they saw at the hospital was very pro-trump and very happy to see president trump there. The president literally came out to talk to reporters in El Paso about how wonderful he thought it was that everybody in the hospital loved him so much. And had so much respect for him as president. That was his remarks. Those were his remarks to the assembled press about what was important about that hospital visit. The president talking about how much people there liked him. It was just truly a very strange display from the president after this hospital visit in El Paso today.

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The trips to Dayton and El Paso were not about comforting shooting victims. They were intended to comfort and boost the ego of Donald Trump. The president consistently fails the test of being the consoler in chief, because the only feelings that he cares about are his own. Trump isn’t interested in healing a nation. He and his White House were trying to use shooting victims as props. The fact that Trump could visit mass shooting victims and his big takeaway was how much they liked him, perfectly explains why America must elect a new president in 2020.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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