Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Fri 12 Sep 2025 16.12 EDT
First published on Fri 12 Sep 2025 14.58 EDT


Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to cast “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the sole problem. In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah.

“How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics. Less than 48 hours after Kirk was shot in broad daylight on the campus of Utah Valley University, Trump replied: “I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less.”

He went on: “The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.”

Trump’s refusal to seek a common bipartisan way forward at a time of profound national anger, fear and mourning was a stunning move for a sitting US president, even by his standards.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/trump-fox-friends-charlie-kirk-shooting

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Of course he "declines" and it's not "stunning". The media has been in this delusional fantasy that he is going to "pivot" and have been that way for the past 10 years. He refused to act on January 6 calling in the National Guard while his hoodlums were trashing the U.S. Capitol.

And because of the media's blind allegiance to their RW corporate owners, this is why we are in a position where we are watching the country being destroyed, piece by piece, while that self-same media keeps trying to make it a "but both sides" nonsensical argument.