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.
Yes there were moments when it appeared that the gorilla was trying to protect the child.
Yes the gorilla was beautiful.
Yes there were moments when the gorilla appeared calm.
There were also moments where the gorilla put the child’s life in danger.
The truth of the matter is this. If at anytime the gorilla wanted the child dead, the child would be dead.
Trump is also correct in saying that there was no choice but to kill the gorilla.
Nothing Trump said was stupid. He observed the situation exactly as it was and remarked about it honestly.