The most appalling President

Nice of one of the mainstream media outlets to say it clearly, but it was so obvious anyway:

The first few minutes of President Trump’s Oval Office address after the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week followed the conventional presidential playbook. He praised the victim, asked God to watch over his family and talked mournfully of “a dark moment for America.”

Then he tossed the playbook aside, angrily blaming the murder on the American left and vowing revenge.

That was stark even for some viewers who might normally be sympathetic. When Mr. Trump appeared later on Fox News, a host noted that there were “radicals on the right,” just as there were “radicals on the left,” and asked, “How do we come back together?” The president rejected the premise. Radicals on the right were justified by anger over crime, he said. “The radicals on the left are the problem,” he added. “And they’re vicious. And they’re horrible.”

Mr. Trump has long made clear that coming together is not the mission of his presidency. In an era of deep polarization in American society, he rarely talks about healing. While other presidents have typically tried to lower the temperature in moments of national crisis, Mr. Trump turns up the flames. He does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all the people. He acts as president of red America and the people who agree with him, while those who do not are portrayed as enemies and traitors deserving payback. 

 Will Saletan has a video out making the same point, but with some additional Trump material: 

 

The particularly interesting thing about that Trump on Fox News clip is that he prefaced his excuse making for Right Wing radicals (and emphasis on the real problem being the Left, who are evil and awful in every conceivable way) by saying he would "probably get into trouble for saying this". He may be an idiot, but is not such an idiot that he doesn't know that he should be telling both sides to walk away from violence, but he chooses not to. 

This from a man who made a "wink wink" comment in 2016 about his guns rights base and Clinton:

In North Carolina on Tuesday, Trump said that if Clinton were elected she would “essentially abolish” the Second Amendment.

He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” 

 People in the audience laughed - they knew what it meant.

The same President who make actual "jokes" about Nancy Pelosi's husband getting his head bashed in (and all of his supporters had no problem with that.)

Not to mention inciting a riot on the same fraudulent grounds that Charlie Kirk promoted and then excusing all of those convicted for participating.

This President actually encourages, or makes light of, or legally excuses, political violence when it suits his side.   His ranking amongst "worst presidents" deserves to be at the very bottom.