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sandensea

(21,639 posts)
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 01:35 AM Dec 2017

Sandy Hook Mom Slams Trump For Partying With NRA Head On Massacre Anniversary

Source: HuffPost

The mother of one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday for “appalling lack of humanity and decency.”

Nicole Hockley, who lost her 6-year-old son Dylan in the massacre, ripped Trump for failing to acknowledge Thursday’s five-year anniversary of Sandy Hook, and for inviting National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre to the White House Christmas Party on the same evening.

“Not only did he ignore the five-year remembrance completely ― not even a single tweet ― he slapped us all in the face by having none other than NRA President Wayne LaPierre at his White House Christmas party that night. The appalling lack of humanity and decency has not gone unnoticed,” Hockley wrote in a Facebook post that went viral.

Hockley was one of two parents who founded Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit that focuses on protecting children from gun violence. In an interview with HuffPost, Hockley said Dylan was the glue that held her family together.

“He had a huge smile and beautiful eyes, and everyone was so in love with him. He was an amazing little boy,” she said.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/sandy-hook-mom-slams-trump-093350008.html





Nicole Hockley, and her late son Dylan
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Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
1. When I heard this news on Friday and was talking to friends and neighbors about this, everyone could
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 02:00 AM
Dec 2017

....only shake their head in disgust and agree that Trump is truly an evil asshole.

It is one thing to ignore and forget or even deliberately ignore and diss an anniversary of a significant event/tragedy like Sandy Hook. But to add insult to injury and invite the NRA head to a party that same anniversary?

That's just pure evil and malice.

Trump has no soul.

joshdawg

(2,648 posts)
2. trump has no soul,
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 02:34 AM
Dec 2017

and he's proud of that fact.
There is no insult that would affect his planet-sized ego.
Pond scum has more honor than trump.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
4. Maybe next Christmas he will have them all over.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:15 AM
Dec 2017

LaPierre, Duterte, Putin, Erdogan...who else? I lose my memory of all the creeps.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
5. Why don't we all just accept that the racist, kkknazi
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:52 AM
Dec 2017

vulgar pervert does not care about our children, our elderly, or any living thing ..lets just accept that he does not give a damn. We care! El trumpf and congressional repubs are too busy planning where to stash their millions of free money or as they call it tax cuts for the middle class and working Americans.

Just want to say to Nicole Hockley and other parents who lost their precious children ...that we care about the children that died so tragically that day five years ago...the teachers who lost their lives as well at the hands of someone who should not have had access to a gun much less an assault weapon. Our children are dying out there!

Of recent, in Aztec, New Mexico, two beautiful young Hispanic students going about their day at their high school were shot and killed...having heard the shots, staff went into automatic lockdown..which kept the gunman from killing more students which was his intent that day...not sure how many were injured. The gunman was a 21yr white male, non- student or staff member, identified as kkkNazi-white supremacist touting hate, a trumpf supporter. Two innocent beautiful lives lost!

To date, no comment from eltrumpf offering condolences to their parents. Just as well, he'd find a way to insult them... he is incapable of empathy and frankly doesn't give a damn about Americans. Perhaps it's best not to expect that he show some compassion, especially when it comes to our children...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
11. Psychopaths by definition lack real emotions except desire and anger
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 08:00 PM
Dec 2017

They have no understanding of how any one feels, nor do they care.
That's why you get that dead eye look of a shark.
Many people have said they have looked him in the face and saw "nothing there".

Psychopaths CAN imitate emotions when necessary. Laugh when the boss laffs, that kind of thing.

Trump is very dangerous and it is clear that a lot of people surrounding him do not know what his behavior means.
There is no effective "cure".
He CAN be manipulated to some degree, mostly because he is not very bright. As Putin damn well knows.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
6. Well, the White House *IS* buddy-buddy with
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:18 AM
Dec 2017

sites like InfoWars and Breitbart so maybe Trump also thinks Sandy Hook was a Hollywood CGI hoax for Obama to declare martial law and grab guns?

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
7. You may be more right than you know
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:05 PM
Dec 2017

He may even cop to it one day. It would not surprise me if he tweet-shits that out one day. And there will be uproar...and then the news cycle will move on, as it does with every outrageous thing.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
8. He has already repeatedly said climate change is a Chinese plot
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:37 PM
Dec 2017

to depress our economy and blunt our trade leverage, so being a Sandy Hook troother isn't a big leap

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
9. Only a ghoul would even speak to LaPierre. Celebrating, on the anniversary of the massacre, evil.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:19 PM
Dec 2017

Using the observation of the birth of the "Prince of Peace" as the occasion to hold their worship of death festivity seems wrong from every angle.

Have never seen a photo of a parent with so much tenderness, and love in her face. It could bring some to tears seeing her with her tiny doomed little boy. He looked completely trusting.

The lesson we never expected to learn from this massacre of children in school is that it threw full sunlight on the slithering monsters under the stone ceiling of Congress. What was exposed there was indescribably cold and treacherous toward humanity itself, as it squirmed and wiggled away from responsibility in creating appropriate safeguards against future massacres of little and large human beings.

sandensea

(21,639 posts)
10. These people must want to go to hell in the worst way.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 06:13 PM
Dec 2017

My guess though is that they'll be reborn in the most dangerous city in Central America. Their romance with assault weapons will cool off real quick.

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