Thank you President Obama for speaking for the American people.

President Obama is the man who represents me, and my country.

I can't even watch news coverage. It is far too painful. Notre Dame is truly a treasure and those who thought it was only for the "religious" or the "Catholics" among us are so very wrong.

I did an op that went nowhere, but I was quite literally in tears at the news and the images. I consider myself an amateur historian, and even for me this loss is incalculable.

which I will not even put here because Trump's such a fucking oaf.

Thank you PBO!

The American people will generously donate to rebuilding the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, I'm sure of it. In the meantime we can commiserate with our friends in France and share in their sorrow.

This is how the pretender in the WH responded

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212013275

Instead, we have the equivalent to the drunk uncle at every family gathering who instead of sitting down to dinner has to run his fingers through the cake icing, sample the side dishes directly from the serving spoon, handle the main course by patting it with his unwashed hands, and then trips the hostess while simultaneously tearing off her blouse and fondling her without permission or invitation.

After which he will spend the rest of the evening telling everyone he was right and that the entire incident was someone else's fault entirely. This before passing out in the middle of a conspiracy theory about the military controlling climate change as a weapon for the Chinese economy...

What a contrast.

Was not as cringe-worthy as I would have expected. That said, it wasn't particularly profound or comforting. And it was a little insulting, because it's not as though the French were standing around doing nothing and had to be told to "act quickly".

I would give it a "solid" C minus, which is probably the best grade he ever got that wasn't purchased out right.

Such a small part of being President, and he can't even get that much right. Talked about the building out of his vast stores of ignorance on the subject. We don't need a history lesson from him.

Who cares? People are sad, people are hurting and this is all he can think of to say. Obama got it right.

He wouldn't know history if it tattooed itself on his ass.

What Trump is supposed to do (as a president or a human being) and what Trump is capable of doing are galaxies apart.

All I was saying is that his Twitter response wasn't as outrageously awful as the sort of thing that you would expect of him.

Of course Obama got it right. . . and I was kidding about the C minus. More likely he deserves a D, which I understand is technically a passing grade. (I never got one, so I'm not sure. A "D" for me would have been devastating.)

“All means are being used, except for water-bombing aircrafts which, if used, could lead to the collapse of the entire structure of the cathedral,” it tweeted.

So yes, Trump's response was plenty cringe-worthy. He gets an F minus from me.

Every time he tries to show empathy, it always comes across as being forced as hell. He can't even fake it.

to take the opportunity to show his ignorance. As usual. He wanted to bomb Notre "Damn" with water planes.

That was cringe worthy to me.....

"Notre Damn"
Please tell me that this was too big a gaffe, even for him. 'Cringe worthy' indeed.

I dread the response from the thug that lurks in the White House today.

n/t

Thank you

because he's normal.

and when to say it.

I miss him so much.

"mainstream and establishment" for the dudebros...

He's even more adept at using Twitter!

Barack Obama speaks for me and for millions of other Americans. Thank you, good sir.

He will always be my President and speaks for me. Thank You, President Obama.

God, I miss him. But he's still here.

Even the much maligned W was not incapable of sincerity.

So sad ....

Trump just threw together a few words incorporating "nobody knows" or "you wouldn't believe". It was like his kid scribbled it down between school bells.

Empathy, compassion, and true class. I sure miss that.

Back when we all stood tall.

And his comments are a sign of what we should be here now, and not an illiterate and incompetent display of ignorance from a uncaring lying self centered egomaniac. President Obama's greatness only grows every time this illegitimate president says or does anything.

conflagration, too.

I am glad we Barrack Obama and Michelle Obama to calmly put things into perspective for us.

from the clown in charge.

Not.

Sorry - feeling pissy this morning, and I get pissier every time the orange fuckstain says something about a world event and Obama, the far better human being and far better president who's not serving any more, says something far more presidential and human than the aforementioned orange turdfucker.

But of course, Bachman's version of Christianity is such a pisspoor shitstain version of it, too, so not surprising that she'd think Donald is a paragon of Christian virtue because he's as hatefilled, knowledge-fearing, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and overall clueless as she is.