The low keep getting lower, as shown by Trump’s response to the DC plane crash
When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’
Every day, the world seems to get stupider and stupider and our leaders seem to get nastier and nastier. Nobody expects empathy or accuracy from Donald Trump but, even by the extremely low standards to which he is held, his reaction to the tragic mid-air collision in Washington DC that killed 67 people on Wednesday night was shocking.
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