Many conservative pundits hopped onto Twitter to praise the brave heroes in the Nashville Police Department that rushed into Covenant School to save the kids and stop the shooter. Joining them, though unfortunately not on Twitter, was former President Donald Trump.
He appeared on the John Fredericks Radio Network’s “Outside the Beltway with John Fredericks” show to discuss the shooting and response to it, along with how the gender hormone treatments might have caused it. Listen to him here:
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As you can hear in the clip, it began with Fredericks asking, “Mr. President, we got to ask you about Nashville in this tragedy adults and children killed at this Christian School. Talk to us with a two-part question. The first one. What about Joe Biden, you’ve been in the White House before, obviously, where you need to react to a tragedy. You’re trying to calm the nation, just like this East Palestinian situation. He comes down and addresses the nation and starts talking about chocolate chip ice cream, and how he came down to get a scoop of ice cream. I’m sure you’ve seen this video. First of all his performance. What in the world is going on?”
Former President Trump, in response, hammered Biden for his insouciance and weakness, saying:
“Well, I somebody messed up it. Yeah, it was so horrible. Everyone’s waiting to hear his words. And he’s talking about ice cream. With a laugh. He’s laughing about it. He’s joking about it. It’s now we’re in a we’re in a serious trouble.
“You know, I got to know President Xi. I got to know Putin. I got to know all of them very well. And they respected our country, believe me, when I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China, they never paid us 10 cents. Are there any others? Literally not ten cents, right?
“And I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China and got along until COVID came in. And then I said I’ve added that’s enough of that. And I made a great trade deal with China. We made the US MCA. We were respected by everybody. And they look at us now. And they think we’re a joke as a nation, a joke.”
Fredericks then turned from international relations to the school shooting in Nashville, asking, “Second part on Nashville leadership. Pardon me, they’re saying that this shooter went to another school first and saw there was too much security. So then went to the Christian school, which had less security, what would you do as President to finally make sure our children are safe and get trained? I mean, there are retired military people. And Karen, she shared a video with you yesterday saying we’ll come forward, we’ll protect your children, there are people out there willing to rely on law enforcement…”
Trump, responding, said that arming teachers so they can fight these shooters is a good idea, that the transgender drugs caused the shooting, and that incidents like this are why he kept transgenders out of the military. He also praised the police officers involved, saying:
“Thank you, teachers that are very good with guns because you really want to where they can handle it. And you have teachers that have a great, you know, record, they’re in the military and everything else. And they’re in the school. And you can do that with a you know, with it, you don’t need a very big percentage you take the people that are really adept with guns. A lot of people have been talking about this concept. I threw this out too. But you have people that are very good with weapons and guns. That could be you know, they’re right there on the spot. And you could have that they could put them in safely someplace, but very, very near. And have you had something like that happen? They take them out.
“I feel like the police acted incredibly well, yesterday, I will say that they really acted unbelievably well, the speed, you know, the speed and the bravery, as opposed to some other schools where it wasn’t that way. But you need you need help.
“We have military, we have extra military, we have a lot of people, that would be good there. And in many cases, they don’t have the right guards. Many cases they have guards with no, with no weapons. So the guy comes in with a weapon, you know, the guy doesn’t have a chance. So you have to strengthen it up. There’s no question about it.
“And, you know, then you had the unusual case yesterday of what happened with this person and the anger that was caused. And that’s something you know, I banned it in the military because of drugs because the amount of drugs I have to take is so incredible in the military, you’re not allowed that for us. And as soon as I get out, Biden opened it up again. And it’s not a good thing because I can tell you behind the scenes that generals did not want it.”
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