Donald Trump finally responded to getting his a** handed to him in multiple Supreme Court rulings this week. Of course, he did it by whining.
Just a day after the high court delivered a 6-3 ruling barring employers from discriminating against LGBTQ+ people, the Justices handed down a 5-4 ruling that keeps DACA in place after Trump had tried to end the program. As a result, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children are protected.
Trump lashed out at the court on Twitter for not ruling his way.
These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020
At a time when black people are being shot and killed by police and kids have to go to school fearing a potential shooting, Trump’s comparison of these rulings to being shot in the face is galling.
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Twitter users certainly think so.
Lmao, you’ve destroyed the Republican party, Spanky. And despite your worst efforts to destroy America with your hatred, you will FAIL as you’ve failed everywhere else.
BTW — shotgun blast is an un-Presidential choice of words to a country reeling from acts of violence.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 18, 2020
Are you inciting violence?
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) June 18, 2020
“Shotgun blasts to the face”, in a tweet telling people their going to lose their 2nd Amendment rights, is as obvious a dog whistle as it gets.
This is inciting violence.
This is basically, a call to arms.
This is insane.— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) June 18, 2020
RED FLAG ALERT
Trump needs to be red flagged. He is unstable and dangerous.
@FBI— ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇʀ (@WritesMore) June 18, 2020
You miserable SOB. A shotgun blast is what killed my daughter. Some of the other victims had their faces destroyed. How dare you put out a tweet like this. Your decisions were wrong & your Presidency is coming to an end. America, better days are ahead with President @JoeBiden.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) June 18, 2020
He then asked if the Supreme Court’s rulings are personal slights.
Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020
The Justices made these decisions based on precedent, evidence, and the Constitution. They don’t make rulings based on what Trump wants because that would be an erosion of the separation of powers. The Supreme Court must be an independent branch. But Trump has tried to stack the courts since taking office. As it just so happens, both of his nominees to the court voted to kill DACA, but Neil Gorsuch did author the ruling barring discrimination against LGBT employees.
Portraying these rulings as personal slights against him is yet another tactic to divide the country and gin up his supporters. A real president would not react this way.
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