J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has made it well known that she is not a fan of President Trump, but she did recently apologize for a series of inaccurate tweets she made about the leader.
J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has made it well known that she is not a fan of President Trump, but she did recently apologize for a series of inaccurate tweets she posted about the leader, reports Fox News.
Rowling reacted on Monday to a video snippet that made it appear as if Trump had declined to shake the hand of a disabled child who attended a White House health care-related event in late July.
The New York Times notes that her tweets included, “How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President,” and, “My mother used a wheelchair…So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child’s head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw.”
Not long after, the boy’s mother wrote on Facebook, “Trump didn’t snub my son & Monty wasn’t even trying to shake his hand. He's three and hand-shaking is not his thing. He was showing off his newly acquired Secret Service patch.”
Further, the full video of Trump’s encounter with the boy does show that the president greets him.
In addition to deleting her critical tweets on the matter, Rowling wrote, “I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly.”
J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has made it well known that she is not a fan of President Trump, but she did recently apologize for a series of inaccurate tweets she posted about the leader, reports Fox News.
Rowling reacted on Monday to a video snippet that made it appear as if Trump had declined to shake the hand of a disabled child who attended a White House health care-related event in late July.
The New York Times notes that her tweets included, “How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President,” and, “My mother used a wheelchair…So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child’s head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw.”
Not long after, the boy’s mother wrote on Facebook, “Trump didn’t snub my son & Monty wasn’t even trying to shake his hand. He's three and hand-shaking is not his thing. He was showing off his newly acquired Secret Service patch.”
Further, the full video of Trump’s encounter with the boy does show that the president greets him.
In addition to deleting her critical tweets on the matter, Rowling wrote, “I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly.”
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