After President Trump was roasted for appearing to mock a 7-year-old girl for still believing in Santa Claus earlier this week, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) raised eyebrows when he took it upon himself to defend Trump, by claiming his comments weren’t as bad as “boiling the little girl’s rabbit.”
“What is wrong with people? It wasn’t like he was boiling the little girl’s bunny rabbit in a pot on the stove or something, I mean, he asked a simple question. You never can find a way that President Trump will make some of the people in the press happy. It doesn’t matter what he does. If he didn’t make the call, if he didn’t talk to the little girl, they would say he was curled up in a fetal position in the White House and was unwilling to come out and talk to anybody. I mean, the man can’t catch a break.”
During a phone call with a young girl from South Carolina on Christmas Eve — who called into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to determine Santa’s location and was surprised with a conversation with Trump — the President suggested it was “marginal” for her to still believe in old Saint Nick, which sparked a public flaying. The girl’s parents later put out a statement saying they weren’t bothered by Trump’s teasing and said they often talk to their kids like they’re adults.
Huckabee went on to blame the media for the debacle and suggested Americans have “disgust” and “disdain” for the press today.
Mike Huckabee defends Trump mocking girl for believing in Santa as a 7-year-old pic.twitter.com/K6BuKT2WR8
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 26, 2018
Easy prediction: The parents’ attitude will have no effect on those who can’t find something more important to hit Trump with.
And if Trump had felt under the little girl’s dress and told her he would be dating her in 15 years - the “reverend” would defend that too.
Yeah, it’s not like he’s throwing little girls into cages and telling them they’ll never see their parents again because they abandoned them.
“It wasn’t like he was boiling the little girl’s bunny rabbit…”
Or hanging a stray dog from a tree…
It’s not like Trump did this thing outrageous that he clearly didn’t do that no one is blaming him for. So the press is to blame for this fake outrage against the thing that never happened that no one is blaming the president for. Not the thing that actually happened that is not normal.
Also Trump could have boiled this girl’s rabbit and it would be the same discussion. There is no event or moral or value or line Trump cannot cross with them.
Also this is the press secretary’s daddy.