Trump escalating the Church shooting: "This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States

[riversedge]

10 min ago
Trump briefed on LDS church shooting
From CNN's Sara Smart and Maureen Chowdhury

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he has been briefed on the “horrendous shooting that took place at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Grand Blanc, Michigan.”

“The FBI was immediately on scene, and will be leading the Federal Investigation, and providing full support to State and Local Officials. The suspect is dead, but there is still a lot to learn,” the president wrote.

“This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. The Trump Administration will keep the Public posted, as we always do. In the meantime, PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END, IMMEDIATELY!” Trump added.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/church-shooting-fire-michigan-09-28-25?t=1759081981529

[Klarkashton]

1. And what is going to do stop it? Send the Marines?

The toxic bastard spends every minute of the day talking shit and making threats about everybody except maga. The whole thing is sick.

[._.]

2. Targeted?

I'm not sure if Evangelicals even consider LDS Christians. Just saying.

[Klarkashton]

3. It's code for "white trump voters"

[malaise]

5. Did he say a word about that Roof fellow?

Mother Emmanuel church?

Another church was attacked recently - not a word.
It’s the effin guns Donvict.

[Lovie777]

4. 3...2...1....

blame the left.

shithole embellishes on hatred.

[leftstreet]

6. So the casino shooting? Attack on gamblers?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Ka$h Patel was heartbroken. . . . nt

[tanyev]

7. This appears to be yet another example of the Orange Menace running his mouth before all facts are known.

😒

[Ping Tung]

8. He's inventing another bogeyman again and playing the victim as usual.

Now he's decided to be the protector of an (alleged) All Powerful, All Seeing, and Everywhere Deity that can't defend itself.

[newdeal2]

9. The Trump admin will keep us posted with lies and misinformation

Both intentional (Trump/Miller) and unintentional (Kash).

[riversedge]

12. As I had read that comment I gave a laugh out loud--like a sane person would trust Trum

to keep us truthfully informed!!

[newdeal2]

15. I guarantee in a few hours we will hear about how the bullets were marked

This is the admin’s calling card.

[milestogo]

10. I am willing to bet this was an unhappy Mormon shooting other Mormons.

It probably has nothing to do with politics or Christianity.

[ananda]

18. I think it has to do with a loosening of "morals."

Maybe the pastor was too pro lbgtq or something.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Maybe pastor was too Jesus like. Feed the poor and hungry.

Peace, love, getting along with others, etc.

MAGAs hate that stuff.

[ananda]

34. Yeah, not Republican Jesus enough.

For sure.

[Irish_Dem]

35. MAGA wants Jesus to be more like Trump.

[eShirl]

11. I wish Ted Cruz would tell him to tone down the rhetoric.

[madinmaryland]

21. When He gets back from Cancun. Maybe...

[spanone]

13. Well, if we only had a leader who would do that.

Instead we have a fucking authoritarian who only wants to blame his political rivals.

[Irish_Dem]

14. White christians keep saying they are victims.

When they are part of the ruling elite.

[yardwork]

16. What about the targeted attacks on school children?

[ZDU]

17. Never discount nor dismiss

Christian on Christian violence

[ok_cpu]

19. You'd think after 20 years, I'd be able to post an image here

but if the pic I saw of the vehicle that drove into the church is real, it's a truck with 2 full-sized American flags in the bed.

Edit to add mlive article with pic: https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/09/live-updates-multiple-shot-at-michigan-church-suspect-down.html?gift=dfd98b66-caff-479b-8ee9-90920563ef55

[GoodRaisin]

22. Yeah. I don't know any liberals who drive around with that in back of their truck.

Plenty of magats though.

[LastDemocratInSC]

23. The license tag on the truck appears to have the word IRAQ on it.

Is that a Michigan veterans tag?

[Abolishinist]

38. Yes. He was a Marine who served in Iraq.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. You just paste the link, except for sites that block hotlinking, like the mlive.com site. . . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. I found an alternate picture that does paste well and I trimmed question mark tracking off end

[ok_cpu]

40. Thank you! I thought that was how it was done. Glad to know it wasn't me (this time) n/t

[taxi]

20. Does it not occur to these people that the shooters have some affiliation with the churches they shoot up?

It's not like they throw a dart at a wall map and pick the nearest church. If they know nothing about a particular church or religion, then that church or religion would not be a target. In other words, the call is coming from inside the house.

[Ocelot II]

29. Or a relationship with a member of the church, if not the church itself.

IIRC, there was a particularly deadly incident in TX a few years back where the shooter, who had a history of violent behavior, killed a number of people but specifically targeted his mother-in-law.

[BlueKota]

39. When I was in fifth grade

Someone set the Catholic School on fire at the end of my 5th grade year. Luckily no one was hurt, because it was after school had let out for the day, but there was band practice going on. Some of my friends were in the locker room, chaging their uniforms when they smelled smoke. I had a doctor's appointment that day, or I would have been there too.

The fire department determined it was arson, and they announced a few days later that they had found the perpetrator, but they never released the name. So likely it was a student or a past student who did it. Also likely it was a child of wealthy church donors, the way it was hushed up.

Given that a number of the teachers were often cruel, we all figured it was someone, who went over the edge because of something done to them. I was really upset because one of my friends or the fireman could have been hurt. It wasn't their fault we had some mean teachers.

We had to have classes in quickly assembled temporary classrooms the following year, in the gym as some of the rooms in the older section burned and had to be repaired. The smell of smoke lingered for a couple of years.

[ms liberty]

24. "No one slaughters their co-religionists quite so cheerfully as a Christian"

- Professor Radcliffe Emerson to his wife, the inimitable Amelia Peabody Emerson in "The Mummy Case"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. He's losing his skill: many maga do not think LDS is "christian". . . . nt

[BeyondGeography]

27. That's some prezidentin' right there

[617Blue]

30. ...by a "Christian"...

[intrepidity]

31. I'll bet his wife left him for a Mormon that goes there.

That's much more probable than it being ideological.

[chia]

36. I've been reading comments at some MAGA sites. They were expecting muslim, liberal, trans, Mexican... they got

another white American and I don't know how much more reality they can absorb before their heads explode from the cognitive dissonance.