“We were hoping the president-elect would denounce Alex Jones for the damage he caused to families who did lose somebody and other families impacted by the tragedy. He never did. We were disappointed in the lack of response.”

-Newtown official to me in this piece:

April 10, 2026 - 18:17 UTC

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I mean, we all know he only did it now because Alex Jones is no longer backing him. He cares nothing about anybody else and will change his views on a dime depending on how he feels like he’s being treated or what he has to say to skate by for another day.
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Well, of course. It didn’t benefit Trump *at the time*.
Now it does. Trump DGAF about the Newtown children. They’re just a useful cudgel for defending his own ego. It’s as simple as that.
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"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" ... Maya Angelou
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He doesn't give one iota of fucks for anything other than himself. Expecting anything else from him is insanity. He has always been this way...and he will always be this way. It's really not that complicated
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Many smart people still fail to realize that the death of another person doesn’t affect Trump one way or the other. He really and truly does not care.
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If Hitler could have helped him get elected *after* the Holocaust, he wouldn't have condemned him.
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Every thing Trump does is transactional and based on whether it advances his interests. This is his one and only principle, and this mode of operating has been repeatedly established (c.f. Pence, Mike).
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That was because Alex liked him and was useful to him then.

Now he doesn't and he's a threat, so Donnie suddenly cares about all those dead kids.
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