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El presidente Donald Trump ha respondido con frecuencia a la tragedia, la muerte y la violencia política sin el nivel de compasión y sobriedad que se esperaría de un presidente.

¿Recuerdan la vez que sugirió que un congresista recientemente fallecido estaba en el infierno? ¿Recuerdan sus líos con las familias de los miembros de la Guardia Nacional cuyos seres queridos murieron en servicio? Hay muchos más.

Pero incluso para sus parámetros, Trump ha sido muy insensible en los últimos meses.

A pesar de haber rozado la muerte en un intento de asesinato a mediados de 2024, Trump sigue diciendo cosas desagradables en momentos muy sensibles y trágicos que involucran a sus oponentes políticos.

El miércoles, hizo dos comentarios similares en cuestión de horas.

El más importante fue su respuesta a la agresión a la representante demócrata Ilhan Omar después de que un hombre se abalanzara sobre ella y le rociara una jeringa con un líquido desconocido durante una asamblea pública en Minneapolis. La congresista parece estar bien y pudo continuar con sus comentarios, pero fue una escena aterradora, especialmente considerando las enormes tensiones que existen actualmente en su ciudad.

Pero Trump, quien ha criticado a Omar sin descanso y ha dirigido ataques xenófobos contra la comunidad somalí-estadounidense en general, no estaba interesado en llamar a la calma.

Cuando ABC News le preguntó si había visto el video del ataque, el presidente respondió: “No. No pienso en ella. Creo que es una impostora. Realmente no pienso en eso. Probablemente se roció con gas pimienta, conociéndola”.

Presionado nuevamente, Trump agregó: “No lo he visto. No, no. Espero no tener que molestarme”.

Desde entonces, la policía arrestó a un hombre en relación a una agresión en tercer grado.

Apenas unas horas antes, Trump había concedido una entrevista a Fox News en la que habló sobre los recientes asesinatos de Alex Pretti y Renee Nicole Good a manos de agentes federales en Minneapolis.

Trump sugirió que se sentía peor por la muerte de Good porque su familia lo apoya. “Y no estoy seguro de sus padres (en referencia a los de Pretti), pero sé que los de ella eran grandes seguidores de Trump”, dijo. “Me siento mal de todas formas, pero, bueno, supongo que se podría decir que me siento incluso peor por eso. Eran gente de Trump, seguidores de Trump”.

Y su compasión por la familia de Good, por supuesto, es algo relativamente nuevo, algo que parece coincidir convenientemente con el descubrimiento de que lo apoyaban.

Poco después de que un agente de ICE la matara a principios de este mes, Trump se dedicó no solo a difamar a la mujer muerta, sino a hacerlo con una acusación falsa.

Afirmó que ella “atropelló violenta, deliberada y brutalmente al agente de ICE”, aunque el video no muestra al agente siendo atropellado. Trump añadió en una entrevista con The New York Times que Good se había “comportado horriblemente”.

(Esta semana, Trump se ha distanciado de los primeros mensajes de algunos altos funcionarios de la administración sobre el asesinato de Pretti, pero sin duda marcó la pauta con sus propias afirmaciones sobre Good).

También hubo un par de ejemplos de esto en diciembre.

El más desagradable, y por el que incluso muchos republicanos reprendieron a Trump, fue su publicación en redes sociales tras la muerte de Rob Reiner, un frecuente crítico de Trump.

Pocas horas después de que se informara de la muerte del director de Hollywood, Trump escribió que se debía “al parecer a la ira que causó en otros debido a su aflicción masiva, persistente e incurable, con una enfermedad paralizante conocida como SÍNDROME DE TRASTORNO DE TRUMP”.

By Leah Asmelash, CNN

(CNN) — “We’re not scary,” Elizabeth told me over coffee in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday morning. “We’re not a bunch of extremists.”

We’d both just heard the news that a federal agent or agents had fatally shot someone — Alex Pretti, an intensive-care nurse — on Nicollet Avenue, in the Whittier neighborhood. (CNN agreed not to identify Elizabeth and some of the other people we talked to by their actual names.)

Elizabeth had already been nervous about going out, given the seeming randomness of the surge of federal forces. Watching a livestream of agents spraying tear gas and arresting protesters, she realized the killing had occurred one block over from her local climbing gym, where she goes almost every week.

On her way over, she told me, she’d spotted military-like vehicles driving by — likely the state National Guard, which Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had just activated.

Elizabeth teaches first grade at a majority Hispanic school in a suburb of Minneapolis. Her students, barely 7 years old, feel the weight of the moment. Children as young as 2 have been detained, and there have been rumors that ICE agents have appeared at bus stops.

Her students bring up ICE unprompted every day, she said: asking about who the officers are, telling teachers they’re scared for their parents or announcing “I’m sad.” They act differently, too. One child, talkative and outgoing, had her personality flip, becoming quiet and reserved, after a family member was taken in the fall, Elizabeth said.

Even their hugs are different, more frequent and more intense. Elizabeth can feel the tension releasing from their little bodies, like they simply need to be held.

“They don’t have the privilege of ignorance,” Elizabeth said. “They could go home and their parents are gone.”

The children have emergency plans: who to call if no one comes home, or where to go if they don’t recognize the people outside their houses.

Schools have hosted “Know Your Rights” trainings for parents, and helped them apply for Delegation of Parental Authority, so their kids don’t end up in foster care if they’re suddenly detained. In the last few weeks, though, such gatherings — like many other community events — have been canceled, so families don’t have to risk leaving their homes.

In the midst of the ICE surge, the definition of teachers’ duties has stretched. Before, any family troubles were usually handled by a social worker for the sake of privacy, circumventing teachers and other staff. Today, those delineations are erased. The school’s basement is filled with food donations, Elizabeth said, and most of the teachers deliver food to families at least one day a week. With community volunteers, they walk kids to and from school so parents don’t have to leave their homes. They post pictures of the children in class to a secure platform, so their parents can see their kids are safe.

“Every lunch I have with other teachers, or every staff meeting, somebody is in tears,” Elizabeth said. “It’s just so much, all the time.”

Elizabeth’s phone buzzed constantly on the table between us. She used to keep her phone on silent, she said, but now she’s wary of missing a family reaching out or a friend asking for help.

‘They don’t make as much food anymore’

The way you look, the way you sound, is understood to be enough to get you detained. ICE and DHS state that their mobilization under the Trump administration is meant “to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.” Twin Cities residents say they have seen enough to not believe them.

HmongTown, a usually bustling farmers market in St. Paul with dozens of Hmong-owned stalls, was nearly empty when I visited on Sunday. Two ICE agents showe

By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump tried Tuesday to concoct an alternative reality on the subject of “affordability” – piling lie on top of lie to try to convince Americans that the issue has vanished.

“You know, inflation we’ve solved; it’s done,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News during a trip to Iowa. “We have it good where prices are coming way down. They were just saying, in Iowa the fuel is $1.95. Did you hear that? Somebody said $1.85. But it was $3.50, $4.50 just a year ago, a year and a half ago. You look at eggs, you look at groceries, it’s all down. Everything’s come down. Do you notice they don’t mention affordability anymore?”

It is true that egg prices have fallen significantly under Trump. The rest of his narrative was thoroughly inaccurate.

Inflation is not over; prices continue to rise. Overall prices have gone up, not down. Overall grocery prices have gone up, not down. Iowa’s average gas price is much higher than $1.95. And Democrats have certainly not stopped mentioning affordability; in fact, it remains a key focus of their public remarks.

Let’s look at these five claims one by one.

Inflation continues: Inflation isn’t “done.” Price increases continue. In December 2025, overall prices were up 0.3% from November 2025 and up 2.7% from December 2024, Consumer Price Index figures show. Trump is free to describe this as moderate inflation, but it’s simply wrong to say inflation is over.

Overall prices are up, not down: It’s not true that “everything’s come down.” Overall consumer prices have increased during this presidential term; in December 2025, seasonally adjusted overall prices were 2.2% higher than they were in January 2025, and, again, 2.7% higher than they were in December 2024. Trump could accurately say that some individual products have gotten cheaper, but far more products have gotten more expensive.

Grocery prices are up, not down: It’s not true that “you look at groceries, it’s all down.” In fact, the 0.7% increase in the Consumer Price Index for groceries between November 2025 and December 2025 was the biggest month-to-month jump reported in more than three years. That number might have been affected by data collection issues related to the fall government shutdown, but regardless, CPI data clearly shows overall grocery prices are more expensive than they were when Trump took office – up 1.9% on a seasonally adjusted basis since January 2025, the month of his second inauguration. And while there have been declines in the price of eggs and a smattering of other grocery items, there have been increases in many more.

Iowa gas prices are generally much higher than Trump said: Trump claimed gas is “$1.95” in Iowa. But the state average gas price on Tuesday was $2.57 per gallon, according to data published by AAA – down from $2.94 per gallon a yea

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