Gold Star Mom: Trump’s Words to Military Widow Speaks to His Feelings About People of Color

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DEFORD: "Well, I actually had a family member say those very same words to me. And they said them about three days after our son’s funeral. And it was — it caused unimaginable pain to have someone say to you, perhaps it was expressed to me a bit differently, they said, 'Well, he knew — he knew what he was getting into,' so, you know, it’s like, 'Why are you so upset?' And there seems to be, in certain humans, this disconnect and their inability to put themselves in someone else’s shoes for that moment. It just — it — so maybe perhaps I’m a little jaded because I’ve heard those words directed at me, and of course it depends on what the President meant by that and Kelly seems to think that his heart was in the right place, but the sentence that he said after that, which was, 'I suppose it must hurt anyway,' speaks more to his personality and his feelings about maybe people of color, that it just didn’t — it didn’t ring true and it didn’t ring sincerely to me, and I was frankly appalled at what he said."