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.
But Trump was not correct in saying “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.”
For one thing the gorilla was never holding the child or anything like a mother holding a baby, nor did it ever look “beautiful and calm”.
I am sorry if this is not popular to say here anymore, but it was a downright stupid thing for Trump to say.
The gorilla was agitated and disoriented. He was violently whipping the child around like a rag doll. He was a nearly adult male gorilla and male gorillas are highly territorial and the males often kill the offspring of other males that they see as a threat to their dominance. He might have seen the child as the offspring of a rival gorilla or an orphaned gorilla. Keep in mind that Harambe had a harem of females with whom the zoo was breading him with. That is how nature works and anthropomorphizing the few moments when the gorilla seemed calm and wasn’t dragging the child around doesn’t change the facts at hand.