WH spox complains media is focused on “negative aspect” of Trump saying John Dingell is in hell
During the bizarre and surreal Trump rally last night in Battle Creek, Michigan, the president predictably said a number of heinously offensive things and lashed out at his political enemies. But it was the insinuation that the late Democratic Representative John Dingell was in hell and “looking up” at his wife, Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell, that drew the most outrage from the media and political establishment alike.
Multiple Republican politicians, including Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Paul Mitchell (R-MI) have demanded an apology from the president over his remarks. The View host Meghan McCain slammed his comments as “sick and cruel” and even FOX’s hosts felt sympathy for John Dingell’s widow, Debbie Dingell in the wake of the President’s attack.
But the response from the White House has predictably been one of ridiculous excuses and attempts to argue that in fact it is the president who is the victim here, because the media is too obsessed with the “negative aspects” of the President joking about how a dead man who once criticized him was looking up at his wife from hell.