So many things ‘incredible’ about massacre – and Trump

“Incredible.”

It was the word that kept tumbling off our Consoler-in-Chief’s lips yesterday in Las Vegas.

“The doctors,” The Donald said after visiting with the wounded, “incredible.”

“The (Las Vegas) police department,” he sighed, “incredible.”

“The people themselves, incredible.”

“Congratulations,” the president told a gathering of trauma doctors, “what you’ve done is just … incredible.”

Donald Trump was right. The skill of doctors, the bravery of police, the courage of ordinary citizens who showed up for a country music concert was more than incredible. It was heroic.

And it was all the result of a deadly shower of automatic gunfire, unleashed by one American upon 22,000 of his fellow citizens with an arsenal of weapons designed to slaughter people rather than big game.

Sadly, that too was … incredible.

But the president did not go to Vegas yesterday to address the incredible insanity of a high-roller named Stephen Paddock checking into the Mandalay Bay hotel with enough rifles to arm a platoon, not to mention the legal bump stocks that turned them into machine guns.

“We’re not talking about that now,” Trump said, brushing off a reporter’s question about whether all the carnage on the Vegas strip would alter his thinking about gun control.

Yesterday was about holding hands and inviting the wounded to come visit him and Melania at the White House when they healed.

Yesterday was all about lifting spirits with lines like, “Americans defied death and hatred with love and with courage.”

President Trump’s words of consolation were an about-face to what candidate Trump said after the massacres in Orlando and San Bernardino.

But then, those shooters had Muslim surnames. The slaughter they unleashed was defined as ISIS terrorism.

The FBI grilled Paddock’s girlfriend yesterday in an effort to find out why a 64-year-old guy with a bunch of money to his name would end his life by taking so many innocent strangers with him.

But unlike the aftermath of San Bernardino, Trump did not want to talk about how someone on the cusp of Social Security, who bought a ton of guns legally, and modified them to kill more Americans with $200 bump stocks available in stores, went so completely haywire.

The Consoler-in-Chief said nothing about when he might take questions about gun control. That’s because he’s not going to say anything about it. It’s easier to wrap an arm around someone who survived insane fury, then find the will to stop it.

Incredible.