By Soumanou Salifou

Our country is mourning yet another one of our fellow Americans. As I am sure everyone in our country—probably even throughout the world—knows by now, the life of a 32-year-old young man, Charlie Kirk, was taken two days ago by another young man who is definitely out of his mind, to say the least.

Our leaders throughout the political spectrum immediately condemned the abominably crime. Our vigilant, very capable security forces did the impossible by succeeding in catching Kirk’s assassin in barely 24 hours.

During a much-anticipated news conference this morning, the governor of the State of Utah, Spencer Cox, appealed to the best in all of us to cultivate the acceptance of one another. The number 1 political leader of the majority-Republican state of Utah went as far as blaming the Internet as one of the culprits in the culture of violence that has been shaking our country for years now.

And what did the number 1 political leader of our country, Donald Trump, say a while ago when asked about the sad event? “I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem, and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy.”

How sad to hear the man whom we elected as our president, the very man who is supposed to be the force that unifies us in tough times like these, say such horrible, divisive things? Why has Trump chosen to “fight crime” only in majority-Democratic states where the crime rate has come down significantly, and not in majority-Republican states where crime is still rampant, if not because he is divisive man?

It is not surprising to hear such horrible comments from Trump, a convicted felon, a failed, corrupt man who was saved from going to prison thanks to being reelected. But his comments are part of the problems that got us to this sad moment. He must be called out for adding fuel to the fire.