Trump response to recent attacks offers ominous outlook for terror in next term
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President-elect says ‘USA is breaking down’ in bleak post seeming to wrongly pin two violent attacks on immigration. Even by Donald Trump’s standards, the message was darkly apocalyptic – evoking memories of the infamous “American carnage” image he conjured at his first inaugural address eight years ago.
“The USA is breaking down,” the president-elect intoned grimly in a message posted on his Truth Social platform at six minutes past midnight on 2 January. “A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it,” he wrote.
The pessimistic outpouring was triggered by the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans’ French Quarter that killed 14 – followed hours later by an apparently unconnected event outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas, when a Tesla Cybertruck, built by the company owned by his biggest supporter and benefactor, Elon Musk, blew up.
Delivered just 18 days before his return to the White House, Trump’s bleak prognosis seemed an ominous harbinger of counter-violence – especially when combined with his false accompanying message that the episodes confirmed his frequent warnings against open borders and illegal immigrants. Both perpetrators were American-born US citizens.
