US president to break with traditional response to tragedies by not calling Minnesota governor Tim Walz in the wake of ‘politically motivated assassination’
Over 48 hours after a Minnesota state lawmaker was killed and another injured in a “politically motivated assassination”, Donald Trump is still refusing to call the state’s governor, Tim Walz, as a president usually would under the circumstances.
Trump told reporters on Air Force One of Walz, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate:
I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I’m not calling him.
Why would I call him? I could call and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’ The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess. So I could be nice and call, but why waste time?
