Trump Finally Apologized For Something. No, Not That. | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Wednesday lastly delivered an apology ― but it surely was not the one many had referred to as on him to make.

Trump final week shared a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first girl Michelle Obama as a chimpanzee and gorilla, which was denounced by Democrats and Republicans alike.

But that’s not what he apologized for.

Trump deleted the video, however insisted he didn’t must apologize since he didn’t really see the racist half.

“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” he mentioned final week. “I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”

Trump, who hardly ever apologizes for something, as a substitute delivered a mea culpa to the folks of Oklahoma for having beforehand endorsed their governor, Kevin Stitt, whom he denounced as “very mediocre (at best!)” and a “RINO” (Republican in title solely).

“Sorry, my cherished Oklahoma, to have done that to you!” he wrote on Truth Social:

Trump threw a match over Stitt’s efforts to protect the bipartisan nature of the National Governors Association, of which he’s at the moment the chair.

Trump this week was reportedly planning to exclude Democratic governors from what had historically been a bipartisan NGA enterprise assembly on the White House, and to exclude two governors from a dinner that’s sometimes for each governor, no matter get together.

Stitt initially pulled the occasion in consequence.

“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Stitt wrote to his fellow governors, in line with The Associated Press.

Trump later claimed he was planning to ask all however two of the Democratic governors to the assembly, though The New York Times reported that solely Republican governors had acquired invites as of Tuesday night time for a gathering to be held on Friday.

In one other submit, the president attacked Stitt and several other of the Democratic governors:

Stitt has since mentioned the assembly is again on and everybody shall be invited. He blamed “misunderstanding in scheduling,” in line with The Journal Record in Oklahoma City.