Trump was terrorized by the London attack, while Britain stood firm

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By Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/05/trump-was-terrorized-by-the-london-attack-while-britain-stood-firm/?utm_term=.8da2b108c15a

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2. Trump returned to his old hobbyhorse of "political correctness." Trump built his brand on saying supposedly unvarnished truths (or racist lies) to an American public he claimed was sick and tired of liberal niceties. "Getting smart" for Trump and his fellow travelers is a vague dog whistle for a more blunt message: Muslims are the problem, and we need to wise up to the threat. Curiously, such tough talk was nowhere on show when Trump toured Saudi Arabia last month. (In a statement, British Prime Minister Theresa May said there was "far too much tolerance for extremism in our country," although it was unclear what steps May, who served as home secretary for six years, may take. Her critics, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, pointed to the British government's close ties to the Saudis and Gulf states that "have funded and fueled extremist ideology.&quot

3. Trump then resumed his running feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who is Muslim. In this instance, he twisted Khan's message — in which the mayor urged residents to not be alarmed over a surge in police forces deployed across his city — to somehow suggest Khan was not taking the attack seriously.

4. Lastly, Trump tried to score a bizarre point about gun control, but misfired. Were British gun laws as lax as those in the United States, one shudders to think how much potentially worse Saturday's attack could have been. Moreover, it's an odd thing to emphasize given that it took Trump three whole days to react to knife-wielding terrorism in his own country after a Trump-supporting white nationalist fatally stabbed two men on a Portland train.

"A traditional president would have reacted carefully to the London Bridge terrorist attack by instilling calm, being judicious about facts and appealing to the country’s better angels," wrote Philip Rucker, The Washington Post's White House bureau chief. But Trump, Rucker added, "reacted impulsively to Saturday night’s carnage by stoking panic and fear, being indiscreet with details of the event and capitalizing on it to advocate for one of his more polarizing policies and to advance a personal feud."


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[cwydro]

1. Thanks for posting this.

The shitgibbon needs to be utterly ridiculed everywhere for his nonsensical tweets.

[Warpy]

2. Just like all the conservatives in Podunk who are still terrified over 9/11

while New Yorkers mourned their dead and tried to get on with living. The only thing that changed in NYC is that people are a lot more observant and have foiled a few hamfisted attacks by wannabes.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. The British are not easily frightened.

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4. +100