NYT’s Peter Baker: ‘It’s Not [Trump’s] Nature To Be a Unifier’

EXCERPT:

BAKER: “Well, it's not his nature to be a unifier, that's not the way he has practiced politics. Look, most presidents at some point or another practice the politics of division, but typically in a national crisis, at a moment when people are so on edge, when something terrible has happened like this, the traditional playbook for a president is to try to calm the waters, to try to bring people together, to talk about our shared interests rather than to -- to inflame the passions and the anger that are already out there. Look, this is a president who's personally upset about this, right? Let's keep that in mind. Charlie Kirk was a friend of his, a friend of his sons, a friend of J.D. Vance. People in this White House are personally aggrieved and upset and angry and the anger is coming out, I think, in his public statements, but it's a very different approach than other presidents have taken in this kind of a moment.”