After Facing Criticism for Golfing as Death Toll Mounts, Trump Amplifies Crude Attacks on Prominent Democratic Women
President Donald Trump spent his Saturday night amplifying voices on Twitter mocking Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
Trump retweeted a user who called Clinton a “skank,” mocked Abrams’ weight, and criticized Pelosi’s looks.
This weekend, we’re going to pass 100,000 dead Americans. How’s the president spending his evening?
— accusing a cable news host of murder
— retweets post calling Hillary Clinton a “skank”
— shares post mocking the House Speaker’s face pic.twitter.com/xTcjDfJeNp— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 24, 2020
Can’t stop, won’t stop pic.twitter.com/UQA1N7SSFf
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 24, 2020
The president also rehashed a debunked conspiracy theory that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was at fault for the 2001 death of an intern who worked in his congressional office.
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s former Attorney General, was also not immune from his attacks.
“You had no courage, & ruined many lives,” Trump wrote.
Sessions, who is running for his old Senate seat in Alabama against a Trump-backed Republican primary opponent, fired back:
I will never apologize for following the law and serving faithfully and with honor. Neither of us knew about the phony investigation into our campaign until after I was sworn in. As you will recall, I recommended firing @Comey from the very beginning. https://t.co/iYBKfwYb6l
— Jeff Sessions (@jeffsessions) May 24, 2020
Earlier in the day, Trump went golfing at his course in Sterling, Virginia — his first visit to one of his properties since early March.
Trump is golfing today.
In 2014 on Fox and Friends he criticized Obama for golfing when there were *two cases* of Ebola in the United States saying, “it sends the wrong signal” and he should have given up golf as president “to really focus on the job.” https://t.co/br8jLwVLts pic.twitter.com/Jmh5CSt2mp
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) May 23, 2020
Shortly afterward, a 2014 clip made the rounds online in which Trump said President Barack Obama should give up golf to focus on handling Ebola, of which there were only two cases at the time.
