Wait, you mean there are two?
Trump couldn’t manage a more polite or serious tribute than “saddened to hear,” and Republican senators don’t even know who Lewis was…beyond “he was one of the black ones.”
Like many of their colleagues, GOP Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) posted tributes to Rep. John Lewis on Saturday and aimed to include photos of themselves with the civil rights icon who died Friday. Rubio even made the image his Twitter profile picture.
There was just one problem. The photos they each posted were of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, who died in October.
Well it’s not as if they’re colleagues or anything, not as if they ever had an opportunity to see them in person.
“It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress with John Lewis a genuine & historic American hero,” Rubio tweeted with the photo of himself and Cummings.
“A genuine hero but to be honest I don’t actually remember who he is.”
“It was an honor to have served alongside John for a small portion of his impressive career of service, and to have joined him at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, a years-long effort of the congressman,” Sullivan wrote on Facebook with the photo of himself and Cummings outside the museum.
“Oh that’s the other black guy! Sorry sorry sorry. Make America great again.”
I find myself blinking in disbelief.
Donald Trump has unified America – against him.. By Robert Reich. Highly recommended.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/19/donald-trump-presidential-election-joe-biden-coronavirus-pandemic
Of course Trump was saddened; it takes the shine off destroying a man’s legacy if the man doesn’t get to see it. Imagine how devastated Trump would be if Obama died with a part of his legacy left untrashed.