Trump Offers Prayers To NBA Star’s Family Hours After Boastful Tweet

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Hours afterTrump used the fatal shooting of Dwayne Wade’s cousin to declare he’d win African American voters, Trump offered up his prayers.

Just hours after NBA star Wade publicly confirmed his cousin had been tragically killed in crossfire while walking her baby in a stroller through a Chicago neighborhood, Trump tweeted Saturday that the death was “just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”

Immediately, Trump was met with backlash as many questioned whether Trump’s week of African-American outreach had fully come off the rails.

In the afternoon, Trump offered his condolences.

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  1. Tweeted from an iPad so certainly not from Trump but from his campaign staff.

    He should have offered his condolences (but that would never actually cross his mind) and left it at that. Instead he tried to exploit a tragedy. Later he had an opportunity to correct himself, but only deleted the tweet to fix the misspelling of Dwyane’s name and tweet the same exploitive thought.

    He probably still doesn’t understand what he has done wrong.

  2. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Hmmmm.

  3. Avatar for danny danny says:

    I have a recurring nightmare that Mount Rushmore will be resculpted into Trump’s likeness, with his finger pointing skyward and his mouth forming that horrible anus-shaped oval.

  4. That’s from the campaign staff, not from Trump. It claims two actions he doesn’t take: pray and think.

  5. I’m sure his next tweet was thoughts and prayers for all the uncelebrity-related deaths that go unreported every day caused by politicians cynically pandering to the gun lobby and making guns easily available and facilitating murders and suicides in every American community and causing just as much pain as the celebrity-related ones even if Donald Trump isn’t aware of them and wouldn’t much care if he were.

    But that’s over 140 characters. So he tweets about his next rally and how happy he’ll be to see all his “friends.” Busy day! Much energy!

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