President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forward
Donald Trump has said he “couldn’t care less” about reuniting America and fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.
In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.
Less than 48 hours after Kirk was shot in broad daylight at the campus of Utah Valley University, Trump replied: “I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less.”
He went on: “The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.”
