You mean this observation?
“It was amazing because there were moments with the gorilla, the way he held the child, it was almost like a mother holding a baby. It looked so beautiful and calm.”
I sure hope that wasn’t the way Melania held baby Barron. LOL! J/K
Especially when the gorilla was dragging the kid around by the leg through the water and at one point slamming the kid’s head against the concrete. The gorilla wasn’t “calm” - he was highly agitated, perhaps at first curious about the kid but anyone who knows anything about male gorillas knows that they are not “gentile giants” and the males have no “mothering” instincts.
Trump IMO should have refused to answer the question instead of saying that or should have only said and stopped at - “I don’t think they had a choice.”
Yer right. A politician would have ducked the question or said “No comment.” Like Sanders. But not Trump. It was a good answer from a guy who hasn’t yet learned to crayfish/suck eggs, and prolly won’t
Was Sanders asked that question and did he really say “no comment” or are you just making that up? If he did say that, I’d be surprised but would have to give Sanders credit for giving the appropriate response to such a stupid question of a presidential candidate.
As to Trump, he needs to, just like he should with his Twitter account, take a few seconds to think about what he is saying before he says it. Why spout off on something that he obviously wasn’t really informed on responding on.
No, I mean THESE observations-
“Donald Trump said the Cincinnati Zoo didn’t “have a choice” when it killed Harambe, the gorilla that held a young boy who jumped into the exhibit on Saturday.
“I think it’s a very tough call,” Trump said during a press conference. “It was amazing because there were moments with the gorilla, the way he held the child, it was almost like a mother holding a baby. It looked so beautiful and calm.”
He’s right in BOTH of his observations, notice the plural form of the word “observation”, which suggests that there was, in fact, more than one observation.
Actually, Trump was just talking about the parts of the videos when the gorilla was just sitting there with the child. If that was all the animal did, the zookeepers might have been able to separate the child from him without the shooting being necessary.
And Trump also did say that at other times, the situation wasn’t like that, but scary.
It’s clear in the video of Trump’s comments that he had seen what happened, and had a proper grasp of the situation.
I HOPE they put his comments on the news, since they will appeal to all the people out there who think it’s a no-brainer that the child’s life came before the animals.
The media probably was trying to fish for him to say something outrageous about this, but he came off as completely sounding like he’d made a wise judgment on a hard andcontroversial situation, whereas many Democratic animal lovers are mourning over the animal’s “murder,” and wishing the boy and his family were dead instead.
These situations are actually important, too, for leaders to speak out on. There is actually a lot more involved than the gorilla’s death, but for instance, the actual matter of valuing human life, and not devaluing by equating animals with humans, or actually in some circumstances granting them more importance.