Lora Taber

…ced, they insist, they just don’t want to see or hear from those people. It’s your fault, they say. You kept calling me a bigot, so I was forced by you to elect a bigoted president to represent me because I was tired of being forced to hold all that bigotry and violence inside.

Trump made none. He consciously decided that he didn’t care about comforting or inspiring those Americans — a majority of them — who weren’t quick and generous enough with their clapping. He was more interested in justifying himself.