Michael Moore has claimed that Donald Trump will get Americans killed in a new Facebook post.
The Oscar-winning director, whose latest film, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, was a critique on the president-elect, believes that the reality TV star and WWE Hall of Famer will prove to be an unsuitable and dangerous leader. He took aim at Trump’s claim that he has only attended a handful of security briefings.
“Most would agree the #1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe,” Moore wrote in a post entitled “Donald Trump is going to get us killed”. “There is no more important meeting every day for the president than the one where he learns what the day’s potential threats are to the country. That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through 20 minutes of listening to his top intelligence people tell him who’s trying to kill us today, simply boggles the mind.”
He goes on to call Trump’s tweets “angry” and “childish” and a waste of time when he should be focusing on more important national issues. Moore also warns about what might happen if a terrorist attack happens in the US.
“So, my fellow Americans, when the next terrorist attack happens – and it will happen, we all know that – and after the tragedy is over, amidst the death and destruction that might have been prevented, you will see Donald Trump acting quickly to blame everyone but himself,” he wrote. “He will suspend constitutional rights. He will round up anyone he deems a threat. He will declare war, and his Republican Congress will back him. And no one will remember that he wasn’t paying attention to the growing threat. Wasn’t attending the daily national security briefings. Was playing golf instead or meeting with celebrities or staying up til 3am tweeting about how unfair CNN is.”
Moore also compares the carelessness of Trump to that of George Bush and how his inattentive nature was a similar threat to the safety of Americans, but implies that the new president will be even worse. “This utter neglect of duty, a daily snub at the people who work to protect us, the first Commander-in-Chief to literally be AWOL and announcing proudly he isn’t going to change – this, I assure you, is going to get a lot of innocent people killed,” he wrote.
Moore has also revealed plans to protest at Trump’s inauguration with a non-violent disruption but will be keeping the details secret.
