Trump befiehlt, Kirk halbmast zu machen, aber nicht für Melissa Hortman – Kritiker sagen, der Präsident beteiligt sich mit selektivem Patriotismus.
https://newrepublic.com/post/200317/trump-flags-half-mast-charlie-kirk-melissa-hortman
Trump befiehlt, Kirk halbmast zu machen, aber nicht für Melissa Hortman – Kritiker sagen, der Präsident beteiligt sich mit selektivem Patriotismus.
https://newrepublic.com/post/200317/trump-flags-half-mast-charlie-kirk-melissa-hortman
47 Kommentare
Half-mast for Kirk, but half-assed for Denver kids. Maaaan what is this country?
Shouldn’t the flags be at half mast for the people we lost on 9/11? Or did we forget about that?
Lol. In order for it to be selective patriotism it’d have to be patriotic in the first place. This is just a signal to his cult that they should have feelings about this.
Some would say they didn’t swing on the ***right*** side.
Of course he is. Kirk was his special sycophant and Hortman wasn’t
Trump isn’t a patriot. Magas aren’t patriots.
„Selective patriotism“ is not in any way patriotism.
You know, everyone calls Trump a pedo, but the reality is worse. He’s a child sex trafficker.
He’s the president. This isn’t a dream. This is where we’re at. The real deep state took over the Republican Party during Trumps first term, and by any means necessary, have secured all 3 branches of the government and started to declare war on democratic institutions.
Now that that’s done, staying in power is their objective. It’s more important to them than protecting the country.
So, if you acknowledge reality you are branded a ‚critic‘?
Same kind of enabler language as „supposed Epstein birthday book“. It was written 20 years ago, it was on the possession of the Epstein estate and was delivered to congress via a subpoena. What the fuck is ’supposed‘ about it?
People die in mass-shootings and the guy doesn’t give a fuck. Rape survivors make a press conference and he flies jets above them.
Then an alt-right dude is shot and gets the medal of honor, and if you say that’s selective, you are a fucking ‚critic‘?
The general populace is so ingrained into bootlicking they can’t even notice themselves.
Is selective patriotism a euphemism for fascist?
The RW is all about selective patriotism when most of them would trade in our democracy for a dictator in a heartbeat.
Patriotism has nothing to do with it.
Trump proves daily, this is not a presidency for all people. It is a presidency for a few and his supporters feel that is how government works.
Problem is, it does not work that way.
No way does Kirk deserve such honors. If anything, he made the country a worse place, not a better one. Furthermore, I thought the lowering of flags was just done for government officials. Kirk definitely isn’t one.
He is president for only half of Americans. Guess which half.
And not just “critics,” but people with actual fucking eyeballs and general cognitive functioning, too!
Of course he is.
Trump is purposely using the sad and horrific event of Charlie Kirk’s assassination to attempt to crush the left. Full stop.
Leaders on the left have all tried to tamp down the rhetoric. Nearly all the leaders on the right are using this event to stoke hatred of the left before ANYTHING is known about the shooter.
Regardless of who the shooter is doesn’t mean that a preponderance of the left or right stoke political violence.
Wake up people, Trump is using you.
Well yeah. He’s only going to do things for those he likes and who support him. A former president could pass and I doubt he’ll put it half mast.
Trump is celebrating the life of a fellow white supremacist and fascist.
Trump and his base are inciting civil war. They are foaming at the mouth to kill dissidents. Americans, be safe.
He’s engaging in pro-fascist propaganda, not selective patriotism.
Remember how he acted when Jimmy Carter died…prick.
Trump’s not a patriot, not even a selective one. He’s a traitor who serves only himself.
The dude buried his ex wife on a golf course for a tax break. So yeah, it’s all performative.
Well, it is the least he could do for Charlie after having him killed to create another distraction from the Epstein files.
How is being full-on antiAmerican considered to be selectively „patriotic“, in this particular instance?
„Selective patriotism“, bleh. He rewards loyalists. He’s no patriot, he’s a con man that we all failed to take down a very long time ago. This is the perfect example of what happens when we keep putting rich people on pedestals and let them get away with anything.
DUH. Have you been under a rock? Anyone who thinks Trump is somehow a fair and even minded individual should have their head examined.
Buying a flag today to fly it full staff, fuck these hypocrite scumbags
Wouldn’t put it past Trump to float the idea of a Federal holiday honoring Kirk. Or pressure the Pope to make him some sort of saint. Hell, he is already getting a posthumously Presidential Medal of Honor. Nobody deserves to die, but the level of hypocrisy is disgusting and we need to be better as a society.
He also refused to call Governor Walz after the Hortman shooting, calling it „a waste of time“ after the Kirk shooting he immediately called the Governor of Utah.
He had them raised for his inauguration despite president Carter’s death !!
Well trump is a piece of 💩. So not unexpected.
The president is engaged in **treason** not patriotism. He’s celebrating another **traitor** who worked to sow disinformation and fascism with lies and manipulations while ignoring the death of public servants.
Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit who lived without honor.
Rightwingers sure do have a lot of empathy for the guy who said all gay people should be killed and black people shouldn’t have the right to vote.
But when children get shot? Meh, it happens, move on.
If he didn’t have selective patriotism, he wouldn’t have any patriotism at all.
Yeah… No shit. And before the identity of the shooter was even determined, he made a national statement saying that the shooting was to be blamed on Americans and the media becoming too extreme in their rhetoric… And then completely unironically, in his next sentence, blames all the rising rhetorical vitriol on what he called „radical leftists“ – a term he uses for…. Anyone who speaks out in opposition to him (governors, senators, members of Congress, mayor’s, actors, lobbyists, outspoken teenagers, and more….) Thereby, simultaneously proving and undercutting his very point.
So many murders in that country daily, but this deserves a half-mast? Because some people liked what he had to say. He wasn’t even in politics to my knowledge. From my understanding he was an influencer and internet personality.
Their patriotism is for the GOP not the USA
Selective patriotism? How about blatant and detrimental partisanship?
“Selective Patriotism”, you mean fascism.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t a patriot.
It’s absolutely sick that he ignored the death of Melissa Hortman and now they want to make Charlie Kirk out to be a hero and a martyr.
He was a professional rage baiter who was especially good at sucking off the President.
Disclaimer that I condemn political violence on all sides. But Charlie Kirk was no hero.
objective reality says he isn’t engaging in patriotism at all; that’s not something he feels. trump doesn’t give a shit about america, but he sees kirk and his murder as a useful tool to manipulate the public with and advance his power consolidation
That’s because Trump doesn’t care about patriotism AT ALL. He just cares when the benefits him.
He’s sending a message. He knows what he’s doing.