Given the breathless wall-to-wall media coverage of the GOP panic attack over a Republican protester with a scary sign at Trump’s Reno rally last night, I’m surprised this hasn’t received more attention. On the same day, at a Trump rally in Tampa, his supporters pushed around J.J. Holmes, a 12-year old boy with severe cerebral palsy – pushing and kicking at his wheelchair while Trump bellowed “Get them out!”
Steve Schale, man-on-the-ground in Florida, brought the news to Twitter.
President Obama took some time out of his rally in Kissimmee, Florida to talk with Holmes, and give the family a photo with the boy:
Holmes and his family had attended the rally to make a point about Trump’s abusive treatment of people with disabilities.
After his speech, Obama spent a moment with J.J. Holmes, a 12-year-old boy with a severe case of cerebral palsy who had been pushed out of a Trump rally Saturday in Tampa. A White House photographer snapped photographs of Obama shaking hands with J.J. and standing behind the boy's wheelchair, according to a pool report.
J.J. said that he had gone to the Saturday rally to protest Trump's mocking of people who have disabilities. His mother, Alison Holmes, brought her son, who speaks only through a computer vocalization device. “The crowd started chanting 'U-S-A' and pushing his wheelchair,” Holmes said.
As Holmes spoke, J.J. said through his vocalization device: “I hate Donald Trump. I hate Donald Trump.”
Holmes looked down at her son with what seemed to be a mixture of pride and concern. “We were put out by security,” she said. “Mr. Trump kept saying, 'Get them out.' "
Given Trump’s anti-semitic closing ad and his campaign’s multiple attacks on the disabled, it seems Trump Co has decided to embrace Movember on a whole ‘nother level in the closing days of this election.