September 12, 2025 - Day #236
Once Again, Trump Calls The Kettle Black
On September 10th, just before 6 PM on the east coast, President Donald Trump released a 4 minute video on his Truth Social account, eulogizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who, just hours earlier, had been shot and died almost immediately, during a tour event on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
For the first minute and forty seconds the President eulogizes Kirk, opening with comments about his tragic death and expressions of grief followed by words of love and support directed to his wife and children. He then goes on to talk about what he calls Charlie’s open and engaging manner and the other qualities which made him an admired American by some, all of which many would understand as appropriate for the circumstance. Then, predictably, because of who the speaker was, unsurprisingly, the other shoe dropped.
Beginning at minute 1:40, Trump’s comments segued.
“…….It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day and year after year in the most hateful and despicable way possible. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop, right now! My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that funded and supported as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials and everyone else who brings order to our country. From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives……….”
What????? His call-out against the left’s violent rhetoric is richer than rich, rich beyond rich, the richest rich ever ever ever.
The public record of Trump vilifying his political opponents and groups he doesn’t like with the most dangerously ugly rhetoric is longer than any other political figure in memory.
Below are just a couple of instances.
During his final rally of the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump hinted at a profane insult against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “She’s an evil, sick, crazy b-,” Trump said, before cutting himself off. “It starts with a B," he continued out loud, "but I won’t say it. I want to say it.”
This, even after two years earlier, her husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked in their home by a man wielding a hammer. Pelosi suffered a skull fracture and other injuries and survived, but somehow Trump forgot to mention that attack in his Kirk address.
Another, more recent act of horrifying violence Trump conveniently failed to mention, was the Minnesota Democratic legislator, Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were both murdered in their home during the early hours of June 14th, 2025. The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, has been charged with the crime. Inside Boelter's vehicle was a list of nearly 70 people, including abortion rights advocates, Democratic politicians, and abortion providers. A lifelong acquaintance described Boelter as "a conservative who voted for President Donald Trump and was strongly against abortion rights."
But yet, no mention by the President of this recent terrible political violence.
Abortion violence is long on the list of political violence in the US and Trump’s policies along with Charlie Kirks own words (numerous times he equated abortion with murder) have helped create a climate for violence.
Yes, WORDS MATTER!
Violence against LGBTQ (recall the Pulse Night Club murders in Orlando and the 2022 murders at Club Q, a gay bar in Colorado Springs) has a long history in the US, which again in part is fostered by Trump’s legislative actions, along with his zealous religious supporters including Charlie Kirk’s own words, who reportedly quoted scripture about homosexuality as an “abomination” deserving death.
Again, WORDS MATTER!
So yes, words and actions matter and by far the greatest offender of harmful dangerous language is the man who, as usual, blames others, and not himself.
May Charlie Kirk rest in peace and, although highly unlikely, it’s way past time that Donald Trump listen and adhere to his own words.
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