happening in a climate that was already brewing and that trump certainly saw and took advantage of headed into the 2016 election he returned to the racial playbook in the 2018 election and it s something he seen be successful for him for his voters and so headed into 2020, we are already seeing that he plans on continuing to use that racial playbook as what he sees as a path to victory and i mean, if we just back up to before this weekend s events, i mean, we were dealing with, you know, past couple of weeks that saw him feuding with these four congresswomen and calling out elijah cummings and degrading the city of baltimore and refer to immigrants in the terms since he came down the escalator, you know, in 2015, so i mean, i think that it s going to be interesting to see as bob said
contributing factor of video games to other types of violence. we only talk about when it really is involving white men. so of course, the responses would be different. and, you know, we need to really reflect on that and what that means as a society, i ll say at this point we talked about this earlier today. trump is a known quantity. we know how he ll respond. we know how central white resentment is to his political movement and base and own personal ideology. that s really not that it s interesting but not that new to me. what s new and i think more dynamic is how we respond politically and culturally to this. when i m looking for interesting stories, how republicans about and democratic candidates reacts and reflect on his coverage of this and whether we change how we cover the president and the movement he leads. that s a difficult thing to do to be honest at this point because this president has so moved the narrative around
assault-style rifle opened fire at a walmart on saturday. the suspect is in custody. he appeared in court on sunday. the magistrate in the courtroom said the suspect was atenl aten and held without bond. investigatiors are examining a creed posted online by the suspect shortly before the shooting was underway. hours later, dayton, ohio, nine people killed when a gunman opened fire outside a bar in a popular neighborhood there at about 1:00 a.m. the gunman s sister is among those dead. investigators trying to figure out a motive. the suspect was killed by police. seconds after opening fire, that after he had already managed to kill so many. president trump is expected to travel to dayton and el paso and speaking out.
that caused tremendous devastation that people of el paso will be dealing with and living with for generations. just a quick point on that. i agree. there is a numbness to this that we ve sort of absorbed. we played the clip throughout the day of trump in the panhandle talking about migrants invading the country and someone screaming shoot them. that was a one-day story. we think about that. no one actually spoke out against it at the panel at the time. we before we came onset we talked about this new york times piece about 2,000 ads run by the trump campaign mentioning the idea of an invasion. right now we look at that like repulsive term but these ads were being run in realtime on facebook and know one said boo about it. so there is a certain numbness to it. i don t know how we recover from that because once you grow numb, can you get the sensation back? before i hand it to you, i want to read the new york times story. since january mr. trump s
country has a long history of white supremacy and of racial violence and so the question of whether or not this is not who we want to be, remains to be seen and is something that we re going to see in the coming days but we certainly know who president trump is and he is somebody who rarely uses the kind of rhetoric that he used today speaking from that teleprompter condemning white supremacy and racism and bigotry and so it will also be interesting to see if because we know who he is, i guess you could call it the charlottesville effect, whether he will stick to the words that he said here today as he heads to el paso and to dayton or whether he ll backtrack and not really set the tone the type of tone that he said that we need as a nation to move past what he called crimes against all hue