Do You Think It's Odd That Trump Has Stayed Silent On The Quebec City Terrorist Attack?

[sp1814]

He was (very rightly) quick off the mark with the Louvre attack, but seems reluctant to publicly condemn the other terrorist attack of last week.

This seems strange - especially for a man who seems to spend a shockingly large amount of time posting his thoughts on Twitter.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/quebec-mosque-louvre-attack-islamist-terror-white-donald-trump-twitter-muslim-ban-judge-a7563306.html

[dieseldick]

BORING, sick of these anti trump liberals ...YAWN !

[mikey4444]

Because we are winning perhaps Dick ?

[-Talbot-]

Trump contacted the top man in Canada and expressed his condolences ... as he should.

But the crux of this thread is that Trump didn't Tweet about it?

Get a grip For Funks Sake.

[naomi24]

Mikey, winning what?

[sp1814]

dieseldick

You could always do what I do when I don't want to read a thread on AB.

I just go to the next thread.

Works all over the place...newspapers, blogs, tv programmes, films. You name it, it works.

Just the other day, I was ignoring the whole of the Sports subsection on AB, because I have no interest in sport.

Next week, I'll probably ignore the Home & Garden section and maybe the Travel section.

[sp1814]

-Talbot-

The crux is - he publicly hollered to 23million people when the circumstances (apparently) suited his political whims, but not when the terrorist is a non-Muslim.

[-Talbot-]

SP, You also seem to be ignoring the fact that Trump Has NOT Stayed Silent On The Quebec City Terrorist Attack ...

[Orderlimit]

Another non-story brought about to whip up hysteria and frothing anger of the gullible

[ichkeria]

It does not suit his agenda so not odd at all. The reason Donald Trump mouths off about Islamist terrorism is not because he gives a damn about the victims about this sort of thing in general, but because he is into power and deal brokering and not a lot else it would seem.

[anneasquith]

Maybe he missed a twitter post about the incident. Because that's his preferred mode of communication. !!!

[sp1814]

-Talbot-

Yes he has.

He's not said a word.

Press briefings given by White House staff don't count.

I'll give you an analogy:

If Virgin Atlantic cancelled three flights, leaving passengers stranded in Stockholm, and their press officer issues statement saying, "We at Virgin Atlantic are extremely sorry that our customers were inconvenienced." that is NOT Richard Branson apologising.

If upon hearing about his stranded passengers, Sir Richard tweets:

"I would like to personally apologise for this, and we will be making sure that everyone is compensated for the disruption to their travel."

Well, that's Richard Branson apologising.

The two are situations are different.

As we already know, the POTUS is a massive tweeter (I like the way that sounds like a post-modern insult), so it's very odd that he didn't tweet about Quebec.

[RandyMarsh]

"Another non-story brought about to whip up hysteria and frothing anger of the gullible"

Like this one?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-bowling-green-massacre-alternative-facts/515619/

[-Talbot-]

Question Author -Talbot-

Yes he has.

He's not said a word.

Press briefings given by White House staff don't count.



Not said a word? .... must have been one hell of a weird phone call to Justin Trudeau then.

[jim360]

Quite apart from whether or not the OP is right about this -- be it narrowed to the POTUS tweeting about it, or in some wider context -- there's also more than a whiff of hypocrisy here from his defenders. Or were they not paying attention to the memes doing the rounds about Obama's alleged/ actual non-response to certain violent incidents that apparently didn't fit into his political agenda?

Trump seems to be particularly immune to criticism not because he's innocent but because his supporters are choosing to ignore his many transgressions at every opportunity. Maybe some flaws are exaggerated but they still need exposure and discussion.

Anyway. Trump failed to tweet about this, and he is usually pretty vocal on Twitter. That's a fact. What it means, I don't know, and wouldn't care to speculate. I'm rather more concerned about his "so-called judge" tweet from the last couple of days.

[-Talbot-]

Maybe some flaws are exaggerated


You think?

[jim360]

Actually I think most of his flaws are understated. It's pretty obvious that he has no understanding of the consequences of his actions, the role of law courts, the concept of checks and balances, and any idea what his office actually involves doing and how far (and not) his powers extend. It also seems that he has very little idea how diplomacy works, or should. We *know* what he thinks about women, how badly he reacts to criticism or disagreement, how inflated and yet fragile his ego is.

And everyone's bending over backwards to accommodate this. Because, sadly, they have to. He's the President of the most powerful country in the world still. At some point, he needs to realise that comes with responsibility, and he hasn't yet shown that.

But still, I'm trying to be charitable. Not tweeting about something is out of character for Trump but doesn't necessarily mean that he was ignoring the issue.

[naomi24]

//Not tweeting about something is out of character for Trump but doesn't necessarily mean that he was ignoring the issue. //

He very clearly hasn't ignored the issue - but don't repeat that to his critics. It upsets them.

[Zacs-Master]

Is that an admission that you support him?

[naomi24]

Zacs-Master, it's an acknowledgement that I don't support lies deliberately perpetrated about him - or anyone.