Does Trump actually plan on doing anything about the ‘American carnage’ we’re seeing?

Now might be a good time for the Trump who said those things to make an appearance.

The president has proven that he prefers doing the easy parts of his job, which mostly includes shifting responsibility to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but it so happens that enforcing the law really is one of those easy parts. It’s literally the constitutional definition of what he’s supposed to do.

And yet even with the National Guard at his disposal to do just that, he sat on his hands for days waiting as cities readied to combust into flames.

Trump himself seems to have admitted to his own foot-dragging. “The National Guard has been released in Minneapolis to do the job that the Democrat Mayor couldn’t do,” he wrote Saturday night on Twitter, as not just Minneapolis, but also Los Angeles and Atlanta were shot up and looted. “Should have been used 2 days ago.”

You don’t say.

The death of George Floyd has sparked unrest across the country, and no one doubts the sincerity of honest protesters who believe police racism played a role, but the situation has devolved into chaos. Shopping centers were torn down. A police station in Minneapolis was set on fire. CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta was mobbed. Several people were shot and one person in Indiana was killed as part of the rioting.

Where’s the “law and order candidate” when you need him? This looks a lot like American carnage.