The former president’s comments come a day after a gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people at Perry High School
A day after a gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people at Perry High School northwest of Des Moines, Donald Trump returned to the state at a campaign event and told residents that they “have to get over it.”
During his speech at Sioux Center, Iowa, the former president gave his thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, emphasizing that “we’re really with you as much as anybody can be.” After stating the tragedy was “terrible” and “horrible,” Trump insisted: “We have to get over it. We have to move forward. We have to move forward.”
To move forward - to another mass-shooting? It’s not a single isolated issue. It’s an ongoing pandemic of people with guns raging and killing others. That lasts years and happens like every other day. Each person lost is a tragedy, and there are plenty of them at each attack. You can’t just shake it off, motherfucker. It won’t solve itself, it would continue. It doesn’t concern you because none of your family, none of your rich sponsors get touched by that. Eventually, it would happen. And you’d act surprised, wouldn’t you? It’s just you don’t care about others, so you can move forward and ignore these deaths like they didn’t happen.