Trump Says He Won't Call Minnesota Gov. Walz

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Presidents from both parties have historically called state and local politicians after high-profile tragedies.

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President Trump said that he had no plans to call Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota after a man assassinated a state lawmaker there and wounded another over the weekend.
"I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I'm not calling him," Trump told reporters.[image or embed]
-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jun 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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---- that fat pile of ----.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-17 10:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Pettiness in a time of tragedy is peak Trump. I'm sure the MAGA boys who post here have their excuses lined up.

#2 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-17 11:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Pettiness in a time of tragedy is peak Trump. I'm sure the MAGA boys who post here have their excuses lined up.

#2 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-17 11:10 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Sure, Tim Walze has been so respectful of Trump. I wouldn't call that fat ----- either, especially after it was his appointee that was the assassin.

#3 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-17 11:20 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

his appointee that was the assassin.

#3 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

The MAGA Trump voter?

Every person on his hit list was a Democrat.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-17 11:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The demented------------- is thrilled that one of his degenerate voters killed Democrats.

talkingpointsmemo.com

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-17 11:36 AM | Reply

Sure, Tim Walze has been so respectful of Trump. I wouldn't call that fat ----- either, especially after it was his appointee that was the assassin.

#3 | Posted by fishpaw

You're a MAGA piece of s*&^, so this doesn't surprise me.

I posted a thread about s(*&stains like you.

drudge.com

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-17 11:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Fat Donnie Two Dolls is too busy bending over for Putin and Xi to make any phone calls.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-17 11:57 AM | Reply

Donald Trump isn't The President of the United States.

He's a wannabe mob boss.

There are his goons, and his enemies.

You know who you are.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-17 12:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Fishpoo gets his queues on how to be a disgusting ass from Sen Mike Lee.

Trumpy is all-in on being a bigly Dick (the biggest dick ever in the history of dicks!) and a coward.

Fishpoo wants to be just like him.

When he grows up.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-17 12:21 PM | Reply

Trump is such a man-baby without the "man."

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-17 01:08 PM | Reply

Small, pathetic man-child.

#11 | Posted by Sezu at 2025-06-17 01:16 PM | Reply

Fishpaw ...

Do you really think this is how the president of United States should conduct himself after the shootings of two lawmakers, their spouses and their pets? Put aside your politics for just a moment.

The constant incivility, not just on this topic, but on every topic that he ever encounters. It's counterproductive at best. Our country has a population of 350 million people. You are never going to get everyone to agree. So you have to find ways to bridge those difficult chasms that separate us. The president has an important responsibility to do that. Am I wrong?

#12 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-17 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Fishpaw ...

Do you really think this is how the president of United States should conduct himself after the shootings of two lawmakers, their spouses and their pets? Put aside your politics for just a moment.
The constant incivility, not just on this topic, but on every topic that he ever encounters. It's counterproductive at best. Our country has a population of 350 million people. You are never going to get everyone to agree. So you have to find ways to bridge those difficult chasms that separate us. The president has an important responsibility to do that. Am I wrong?

#12 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-17 01:47 PM | Reply | Flag:
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If it was Waltz family then no. Do you think when Waltz first came out and said it was politically motivated he knew it was one of his appointees? Did Waltz contact Trump after he was shot? Dems made this bed.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-17 02:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Do you think when Waltz first came out and said it was politically motivated he knew it was one of his appointees?

Still going with that debunked "appointee" distortion of reality?

Who could know this maga maniac was infiltrating organizations to get a list of people to murder?

"Did Waltz contact Trump after he was shot?"

Trump was a candidate at the time. It's not like Waltz had his private number like Putin and KGB does.

But Walz did very publicly denounce the attack on Trump, stating, "Violence has no place in American politics"

Trumpy should be the one denouncing violence in America. Not provoking it and promoting it.

He also stated he was "Praying for the safety of former President Trump and everyone at his rally in Pennsylvania".

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-17 02:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Of course he won't. Absolutely no benefit in it for him.

#15 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-06-17 03:46 PM | Reply

FleshPawn continues to be a cock-slobbering pansy.

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-17 03:47 PM | Reply

Dems made this bed.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw

As usual, these pieces of s*&^ want to blame someone else for their lack of class and dignity.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-17 04:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13 | POSTED BY FISHPAW AT 2025-06-17 02:36 PM | FLAG:

Got it. You believe a president should publicly humiliate the governor of a state in which a spree of assassinations took place.

#18 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-17 04:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Dems made this bed.

#13 | POSTED BY FISHPAW AT 2025-06-17 02:36 PM | FLAG: | FUNNY: 1

You don't think Trump made this bed? You don't think his constant incitement played a role in the shooter's actions? You don't think his endless disparagement of anyone perceived as an enemy, which is a very long list, by the way, has fed into the poisonous political atmosphere in this country?

Do you think it's more important to get your digs in than it is to try to prevent this kind of violence?

#19 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-17 04:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"You don't think Trump made this bed?"

I don't.

I think undocumented immigrants made his bed.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-17 04:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13 He knew it was a politically motivated assassination based on the notebooks containing the manifesto the killer left in the car he left behind. He stalked this targets like prey. Do you people trying to score points against Gov Walz (learn to spell his name correctly) realize you are making light of the fact that they were hunted like prey and killed? And you were angry for accurately being called deplorable? Seriously, what is wrong with you that you can't show empathy over a terrible, terrible act against people in their own homes in the early hours of the morning?

#21 | Posted by Chantresse at 2025-06-17 07:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

MAGATS are ------- retarded.

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-17 10:59 PM | Reply

And you were angry for accurately being called deplorable?

They were angry because someone finally called them out for what they are.

No longer pretending they have a place in civil society was deemed uncivil by them.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-18 09:47 AM | Reply

The president has an important responsibility to do that. Am I wrong?

You are asking a petulant child to think about someone's feelings other than his own.

He will never do it.

That much is clear.

#24 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-18 01:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Did Waltz contact Trump after he was shot?
#13 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

Trump was never shot.

Dry your leaky coozie.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 01:08 PM | Reply

" Still going with that debunked "appointee" distortion of reality?"

He's a Walz appointee. That's a fact. How has it been debunked?

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 05:42 PM | Reply

How has it been debunked?

The debunking part is that it doesn't mean anything.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 05:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The debunking part is that it doesn't mean anything.

#27 | POSTED BY REDIAL

BELLRINGER knows that.

Being consciously stupid is manipulation tactic.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-18 05:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That's a fact. How has it been debunked?

#26 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's an obvious distortion of the truth to present a false narrative. I.E. a lie.

Something you specialize in.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-18 06:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He's a Walz appointee. That's a fact. How has it been debunked?
#26 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Look at this stupid idiot.

He's a hit at all the MAGA gatherings.

An idiot amongst the morons.

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 06:15 PM | Reply

" The debunking part is that it doesn't mean anything.

#27 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-06-18 05:49 PM | FLAG: "

Bingo! You are the first person to properly address the fact that he's a Walz appointee.

#31 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 06:23 PM | Reply

the fact that he's a Walz appointee.

Are you saying Walz should have removed him from the committee? For what reason?

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 06:29 PM | Reply

He doesn't even know what "Walz appointee" means.

He's just repeating what he read from embarrassingly rightwing propaganda sources.

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 06:31 PM | Reply

Break-in reported at home of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman

abcnews.go.com

Typical MAGAt filth.

#34 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-18 06:36 PM | Reply

You are the first person to properly address the fact that he's a Walz appointee.

#31 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Even you haven't "properly" addressed it.

Meanwhile Trumpy is pardoning convicted criminals left and right who then go on to commit other crimes.

You must be so proud.

#35 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-18 06:47 PM | Reply

"He's a Walz appointee. That's a fact. How has it been debunked?"

So, what. You think that is relevant how? He was previously appointed by the former Gov Mark Dayton, and reappointed by Walz. It is an unpaid 3 year position on a bi-partisan committee of about 60. He served on the committee from 2019 to 2022.

In the future, could you deplorables at least wait until the bodies are buried before you attempt to dance on their graves?

#36 | Posted by Chantresse at 2025-06-18 07:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

So, what. You think that is relevant how?

Dinger thinks Walz is responsible for these murders because he didn't kick the perp off the committee and confiscate his firearms.

#37 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 07:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He was previously appointed by the former Gov Mark Dayton, and reappointed by Walz.

Reappointed.

What do you want to bet Walz simply approved a list he was handed because it didn't really matter who was on that list since they were vetted before they got to him.

#38 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 07:36 PM | Reply

Dinger thinks Walz is responsible for these murders because he didn't kick the perp off the committee and confiscate his firearms.
#37 | POSTED BY REDIAL

That's definitely the Republican talking point.

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 07:37 PM | Reply

This is what maga filth are attempting.

talkingpointsmemo.com

#40 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-18 07:44 PM | Reply

#38 "What do you want to bet Walz simply approved a list he was handed because it didn't really matter who was on that list since they were vetted before they got to him"

Oh, I get that, just like the Heritage Foundation provided the list of Supreme Court appointees for Trump. I want Dinger to admit why he thinks it matters. I'm pretty sure he knows it doesn't matter and is just trolling. I just trolled him back to try make him explain himself, but I don't think he'll answer.

What say you, Dinger?

#41 | Posted by Chantresse at 2025-06-18 07:50 PM | Reply

" Are you saying Walz should have removed him from the committee?

#32 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-06-18 06:29 PM | FLAG: "

No, not at all.

#42 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 08:16 PM | Reply

Redial,

I thought you had it figured out.

#43 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 08:19 PM | Reply

Chantrese,

All I said is he's a Walz appointee.

#44 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 08:20 PM | Reply

#44 And I asked you why that matters. A more truthful statement is you were just trolling to get someone to admit he was appointed by Walz, even though it has no relevance to the crimes committed by the appointed party.

#45 | Posted by Chantresse at 2025-06-18 08:39 PM | Reply

Chantrese,

Redial answered for me and I acknowledged as such but he didn't pick up on it.

Here is your answer:

" " The debunking part is that it doesn't mean anything.

#27 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-06-18 05:49 PM | FLAG: "

Now do you get it?

#46 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 09:32 PM | Reply

No, not at all.

Good. So the fact that this murderer was on a Walz board means absolutely nothing.

Why keep bringing it up?

#47 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 09:46 PM | Reply

" Why keep bringing it up?

#47 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-06-18 09:46 PM | FLAG: "

To make a point. All I've said is he's a Walz appointee. That's it. I never said anything else. I didn't assign any blame to Walz. I didn't claim this guy is a lefty (I don't know how he leans, I'm guessing he leans right). Nothing The point I'm making is that when most lefties on this site see "Posted by: Bellringer" they lose their minds.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 09:57 PM | Reply

To make a point.

Fair enough. I'm sure most of us can take your completely irrelevant point as made.

#49 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 10:10 PM | Reply

In other news, he seems to be been a straight, white man.

#50 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 10:12 PM | Reply

Jeff brings it up because he is desperate to deflect from the fact that right wing violence is becoming mainstream due to his magat scum god king

Cause Jeff is a horrible human being

#51 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 10:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You are going to say that in the wake of the LA riots, Luigi Mangione, 2 Israeli diplomats murdered, Jews being attacked with Molotov cocktail"s? You are one dumb bets cuck incel.

#52 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 10:20 PM | Reply

Where is there a mainstream democratic politician cheering them on, calling for violence or pardoning violent criminals who support them?
Thoughts and prayers are too much for Shitler, your hero
You are one shitty human being.

#53 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 10:24 PM | Reply

Chuck Schumer:

" "I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

Shocking that a would be assassin targeted Brett Kavanaugh.

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 10:30 PM | Reply

Which mainstream Republican is calling for violence?

#55 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 10:32 PM | Reply

"Shocking that a would be assassin targeted Brett Kavanaugh."

Do you consider the J6 mob chanting "Hang Mike Pence" as would-be assassins?

#56 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-18 10:33 PM | Reply

Far less seriously than a guy who purchased a home invasion let with handguns, flies in fr9m another state and makes it all of the way to Kavanaugh's home and chickens out when he spots a couple of marshals in the driveway.

Do you think that wasn't serious?

#57 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 10:38 PM | Reply

2 Israeli diplomats murdered

I missed that one. When did it happen?

#58 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 10:41 PM | Reply

You are going to say that in the wake of the LA riots,
#52 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Why do you keep bringing up 1992?

#59 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 10:53 PM | Reply

BullBringer's klansmen plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan and stormed the Capitol Building.

Yet he has the audacity to call some protests in Los Angeles "Riots". Not remembering Los Angeles actually had riots and this Trump made distraction is nothing close to a riot.

What a hyperventilating coozie he is.

#60 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 10:57 PM | Reply

"Far less seriousl"

I didn't ask degree; I asked if you consider them "would-be assassins".

#61 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-18 11:09 PM | Reply

I missed that one. When did it happen?
#58 | Posted by REDIAL

Canadian internet is Sloooooow

#62 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-18 11:20 PM | Reply

Canadian internet is Sloooooow

I'm waiting. Fill me in.

#63 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 11:38 PM | Reply

" I missed that one. When did it happen?

#58 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-06-18 10:41 PM | FLAG: "

It's recent. Within the last couple of months. Give me a sec and I'll get it for you ... ..

#64 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 11:46 PM | Reply

" Yes, two young Israeli diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were murdered in Washington, D.C. They were shot and killed on the evening of May 21, 2025, while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, has been charged with murder and the killings are being investigated as a hate crime and act of terrorism. "

#65 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 11:47 PM | Reply

Give me a sec and I'll get it for you ...

Thanks. I'm looking forward to hearing about these murdered Israeli diplomats.

#66 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 11:48 PM | Reply

" #61 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2025-06-18 11:09 PM | FLAG: "

And I asked you if you regard the abortrd attempt on Kavanaugh was serious.

As for the chanters ... ..impossible to know. People chant a lot of dumb things. It's impossible to know if they would have acted if given the opportunity. One thing is for certain, any actual attempt to get close to Pence would have been met with the use of deadly force by SS.

#67 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 11:51 PM | Reply

Ok. So a German working as a low level research assistant at the embassy and his American girlfriend from Kansas are "Israeli Diplomats"?

Is the guy that hoses out the parking lot also a "Diplomat"? I always thought a diplomat represented their county on policy and stuff.

#68 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 11:52 PM | Reply

This will provide more detail

abcnews.go.com

#69 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 11:53 PM | Reply

Sorry for the misattribution.

They were staffers:

" 2 Israeli Embassy staffers". From the ABC headline.

#70 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 11:54 PM | Reply

Clownshack calls looting, burning cars, vandalizing buildings and attacking police as a mere protest. Clownshack is a very dim man.

#71 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 11:57 PM | Reply

Sorry for the misattribution.

No worries.

#72 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 11:57 PM | Reply

Ok . So a German working as a low level research assistant at the embassy and his American girlfriend from Kansas are "Israeli Diplomats"?
Is the guy that hoses out the parking lot also a "Diplomat"? I always thought a diplomat represented their county on policy and stuff.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 11:52 PM | Reply

What part of Kansas is she from??

#73 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-19 12:10 AM | Reply

"As for the chanters ... ..impossible to know."

Huh? They gathered weapons (like the assassin), they went to where they knew the target would be (like the assassin)...

About the only things different were the J6 folks didn't turn around when they saw Marshalls, and the J6 attempted assassins didn't decide against it and turn themselves in.

But thanks for showing your double-standards, for all to see.

#74 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-19 12:27 AM | Reply

What part of Kansas is she from??

High school in Prairie Village? Then University of Kansas? I'm not familiar with either.

#75 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-19 12:31 AM | Reply

Ahhhhhhh Kansas City suburb. Gotcha thanks for the info. I appreciate it greatly

#76 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-19 12:45 AM | Reply

I don't recall anyone entering the capitol building with firearms.

And you still haven't answered my question when I had the courtesy to answer yours.

#77 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-19 12:48 AM | Reply

Gotcha thanks for the info. I appreciate it greatly

I'm here to provide whatever minimal service I can. :-)

#78 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-19 01:00 AM | Reply

Danforth,

This is how bad your attempt ar equivalence is:

Name for me any J6er charged with attempted murder of Pence. In 2022 Kavanaugh's would be assassin plead gu8lty. So, not even 8n th3 same ballpark, but then you knew that.

#79 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-19 01:21 AM | Reply

"I don't recall anyone entering the capitol building with firearms."

Keep doing research.

#80 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-19 01:22 AM | Reply

"I had the courtesy to answer yours"

When? "impossible to tell" isn't an answer; it's bullschiitttt.

Were the J6 rioters hunting Nancy Pelosi "would-be assassins"? Were the ones chanting "Hang Mike Pence"?

You've already shown your double standards, the only ones you seem to have.

#81 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-19 01:25 AM | Reply

"I don't recall anyone entering the capitol building with firearms."

No doubt the "news" outlets you frequent are happy to lie to you:
www.reuters.com

#82 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-19 01:26 AM | Reply

Bellringer owned again, and too stupid to notice it.

#83 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-06-19 01:28 AM | Reply

"Name for me any J6er charged with attempted murder of Pence."

Put those goalposts back where you found them.

But keep tap dancing, rather than admit the obvious. I could use a laugh!

Your barometer, upthread, was "grabbed weapons, went to target"...until I proved the J6 rioters did the same, and worse.

As I've exposed, AGAIN, if you didn't have double-standards, you'd have no standards at all.

#84 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-19 01:31 AM | Reply

Oh, and another part of your barometer:

"It's impossible to know if he would have acted if given the opportunity. One thing is for certain, any actual attempt to get close to Kavanaugh would have been met with the use of deadly force"

I only changed the two bolded words. Otherwise, 100% the same.

I rest my case, two-face.

#85 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-19 01:41 AM | Reply

Let's see:

Pleads guilty vs no one charged, much less found guilty of attempted murder of Pence.

Your equivalence sucks and Alexandrite can suck it.

And you STILL haven't answered my question.

I'll clarify my answer to your question for you: a lack of anyone being charged tells me that the J6ers were not would be Pence assassins.

#86 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-19 01:57 AM | Reply

Danforth,

What your Reuters article doesn't say is if any of the 5 accused of firearm possession were in the capitol building.

It is notably vague " in or around the capitol building".

#87 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-19 02:02 AM | Reply