In past times, when shocking events and tragedies occurred, whoever was President of the United States promoted a sense of unity, rather than division.
Such was the case when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, followed by Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, all under the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Such was the case when September 11 occurred, under the Presidency of George W. Bush.
Such was the case when Donald Trump faced an assassination threat in 2024, under the Presidency of Joe Biden.
The four former Presidents—Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden–all issued compassionate and unifying statements after the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk on this past Wednesday.
But Donald Trump, as usual, is promoting division and threats, and making claims about the assassin, which are totally untrue.
Instead of “lowering the temperature” of the rhetoric, he is escalating the potential of political violence!
The assassin was a straight white Utah Mormon, whose family are Trump supporters, not some liberal or socialist or gay or Muslim or immigrant or Latino or anything remotely related to the so called Left!
Trump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals
“At a time when right-wing extremists are calling for open season on liberals and the left, the president of the United States just told them: Hey, go for it.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/200410/trump-issued-unnerving-threat-liberals
It sounds like the assassin was a nut.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-messages-on-the-bullets-are
The assassin certainly ruined his life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk.html
The shooter appears, from online postings, to have been a Groyper, a White Nationalist movement led by another far-right provocateur, Nick Fuentes, who regularly picked public fights with Kirk, urging his followers to out Kirk as a “fake conservative,” raising issue, most recently, with Kirk’s insistence that the Trump administration should release the Epstein files.
The messages etched into the bullets were not, in fact, pro-trans, as the media and political ecosystem on the far right initially asserted, but rather, from a video game known for its satirical use of fascist imagery, which terminally online Groypers are known to have co-opted to be able to, in essence, hide in plain view.
https://augustafreepress.com/news/charlie-kirk-murder-update-truth-comes-out-the-shooter-is-a-maga/
Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk
https://www.404media.co/comcast-nbcuniversal-email-charlie-kirk/
Fired MSNBC Contributor Says Right Wing Mob Came for Him
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fired-msnbc-contributor-matthew-dowd-says-right-wing-mob-came-for-him/
Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others
https://www.wired.com/story/extremists-hated-charlie-kirk-now-radicalizing-others/
Well, a MAGA gaming nut is still a nut.
The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers must be far, far, far right, if they claim that Kirk was a “moderate”.
Authorities are investigating whether the shooter’s romantic relationship with his roommate, who was transitioning from male to female, could be connected to the motivation for the shooting.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/politics/investigation-charlie-kirk-killing-wwk
The Utah governor is claiming that the shooter held “leftist ideology”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/us/kirk-shooting-suspect-ideology-partner.html
No matter whether he’s left, right, or middle…the shooter still sounds like a nut.
On Jake Tapper’s show this afternoon, he had some guests discussing about political rhetoric. The Republican strategist guest was criticizing the left for calling Trump a fascist.
Well…the thing is…Trump is a fascist.
I hate CNN’s bothsidesism.
The Augusta Free Press is wrong in their assessment about the shooter possibly being a Groyper.
How Charlie Kirk’s killing sparked unfounded theories about Groypers.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/groyper-charlie-kirk-nick-fuentes-tyler-robinson