Last week President Trump had a perfect opportunity to step up and act like a statesman. The terrorist incident in Virginia, perpetrated by a white nationalist from Ohio, afforded Trump a chance to denounce such domestic hate groups. Instead he said the violence came from “many sides.”

Monday morning on the MSNBC show Morning Joe, a discussion of Trump’s actions in light of the Charlottesville tragedy began with panelist Frank Bruni of the New York Times commenting that Trump’s fellow Republicans are starting to distance themselves from the president:

“If we’re trying to look for some silver lining here, something good to come out of it, he’s making many Republicans who were mealy-mouth on this or came out and made their principles clear. He’s making them say very sharp things they haven’t said before. When we’re done with Donald Trump, and I look forward to that day, these statements will live on.”

That led Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, to note:

“This is a country that’s been ravaged by terrorism for decades. What we saw the other day was terrorism. The intentional use of force against civilians for political purpose. When this woman was killed, and the car mowed down people, that’s domestic terrorism in the United States. You can’t separate who we are at home from what we project abroad. What happened the other day is not just domestic reality also an expression of what the United States now is.”

But it was CNBC host Donny Deutsch who had the most damning criticism of Trump:

“What a pathetic, sniveling, little nano-president he is. A coward. You don’t need a kitchen cabinet to outline how to deal with this.”

Donald Trump is an embarrassment to this country. With each new day, he proves just how unfit he is to be the leader of anything. He is a disgrace to the office he holds and to all of humanity.

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This article was originally published by the same author at LiberalAmerica.org