Donald Trump had a lot on his mind when he went on Twitter this morning. From the look of his timeline, it appears the first item was the most literal:
Oh wow, lightweight Governor @BobbyJindal, who is registered at less than 1 percent in the polls, just mocked my hair. So original!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2015
It was only after he defended his hair’s honor that he remembered there was something else a Republican presidential candidate ought to say on this, the most holy day in the Giulianian Calendar:
Let’s all take a moment to remember all of the heroes from a very tragic day that we cannot let happen again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2015
Trump’s relationship to 9/11 is more complicated than one would assume given his status as a prominent New Yorker:
Hey @realDonaldTrump you must've accidentally deleted this tweet I linked earlier but don't worry I saved it for you. pic.twitter.com/sFPI6lfDXN
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 11, 2015
That’s a screen capture of his original tweet, which has since been deleted. A re-tweet of that original tweet by the Donald himself remains in his feed however:
“@realDonaldTrump: I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2013
The re-tweet’s continued existence is most likely a matter of oversight, but it does indicate that — at least initially — Trump thought the idea that mocking “haters and losers” on 9/11 was an idea not only worth expressing once, but repeating again the next day, just in case any of the aforementioned missed it the first time.
Or, perhaps, they missed it entirely, because maybe the “haters and losers” in question were the victims of 9/11. If Trump believes that prisoners of war can’t be “war heroes” because they were captured, and he “doesn’t like people who were captured,” it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Trump doesn’t like “losers” who are killed in terrorist attacks either. They could have been “winning,” after all, but instead were just dying.
