It wasn’t long before the White House and its MAGA allies tried to use the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner to get all kinds of issues onto their agenda.
The one that has received the most attention is the call for tThe White House ballroom must be built even though the project is illegal and has nothing to do with the incident at a private event on private property.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) demanded that DHS be funded in an item on X, even though the Secret Service was funded last year as part of Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy that Comer voted for.
However, the award for the most blatant and petty attempt to manipulate the situation out of a petty personal grudge goes to First Lady Melania Trump, who used the standard MAGA tactic of using (attempted) political violence and weaponizing it against the First Amendment.
Trump posted on X the official account for the First Lady and an inscrutable call for ABC to “do something” about late night comedian and Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel.
As a reminder, Melania Trump has been a source of division and political division. Before she was ever first lady, Trump spread lies about Barack Obama.
