Trump compares shooting of Jacob Blake to missing a 3-foot golf putt: ‘People choke’

George Back
·Producer, Yahoo Entertainment
Updated ·2 min read

President Trump appeared on The Ingraham Angle Monday night, where he discussed the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. Trump attempted to defend the shooting by saying the police simply choked.

“[The police] can do 10,000 great acts, which is what they do,” said Trump, “And one bad apple or a choker — you know a choker, they choke — shooting the guy in the back many times.”

The president admitted that, in hindsight, the police could have acted differently. He also floated out the theory that Blake may have been armed.“Couldn't you have done something different, couldn't you have wrestled him?” pondered Trump. “You know, I mean, in the meantime he might've been going for a weapon.”

Even if Blake was unarmed, Trump believes the shooting was simply a mistake, like the kind a golfer might make in a tournament.

“They choke, just like in a golf tournament they miss a 3-foot putt,” said Trump.

Host Laura Ingraham immediately cut him off, saying “You're not comparing it to golf, because that’s what the media will say.” To which Trump replied, “I'm saying people choke.”

With the recent high-profile police-related deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks, protests have been erupting around the country, with many people calling for police reform. Trump blamed the protests on the media, which he believes is focusing primarily on police brutality instead of all the positive work that the police do.

Trump said, “The vast majority, not even, thousands and thousands of great acts and one bad one and you make the evening news for weeks.”

The Ingraham Angle airs weeknights at 10 p.m. on Fox News Channel.

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