Trump just acted out the 2015 Paris terror attacks, complete with finger guns and sound effects
President Trump's spree of remarkable comments has turned into a disturbing game of charades.
Trump spoke at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting on Friday, notably borrowing a so-called "phrase you've heard a thousand times" to claim "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." And in an attempt to prove that old adage, Trump brought up 2015's terror attacks in Paris, going so far as to act out his interpretation of the shootings that left 130 people dead.
"Paris, France, they say has the strongest gun laws in the world," Trump said to start his reenactment of the attacks. But "those maniacs" who conducted the attacks still "shot one person, another person, another person," Trump said, continuing on while "firing" a finger gun at the audience. And he didn't stop there, saying "the shooting went on so long" and miming out more gunshots while repeating "get over here, boom" over and over. Trump then suggested that, if the "cowards" who attacked knew that there were people "from the other side" with guns, the whole massacre "probably wouldn't have happened."
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