Friday morning a guy wielding a machete ran toward a group soldiers and security guards outside the Louvre in Paris and was promptly shot. No one other than the would-be attacker was harmed. Popular vote loser Donald Trump wakes up to that news and, of course, pulls out his phone. Not to call Paris. To tweet.
Which is about as true as the Bowling Green massacre. When a real massacre happens, though, radio silence. Probably because of who was attacked.
On Sunday night, a gunman opened fire on a mosque in suburban Quebec City, leaving six people dead and many others wounded. Local authorities have since charged 27-year-old Canadian citizen Alexandre Bissonnette with murder and attempted murder for his alleged role in the attack. […]
On Trump's famed social media accounts, a bullhorn the president often uses to communicate with millions of followers, the attack in Quebec City does not appear to have been mentioned at all.
Trump's personal Twitter account has posted 16 times since the shooting, and the official POTUS account on the same service tweeted or retweeted other messages 30 times. Neither mentioned the Quebec City attack as of Wednesday afternoon. During the same period, a Facebook account linked to Trump posted at least 20 times. It also had not mentioned the shooting by Wednesday.
But no, the "administration" insists, the Muslim ban isn't about Muslims.