Trump Blasts Those Cheering Man Who Allegedly Murdered Insurance CEO: ‘A Terrible Thing’

President-elect Donald Trump slammed those who are praising 26-year-old Luigi Mangione for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, saying that those people have a “sickness.”

Trump made the remarks during a press conference on Monday from Mar-a-Lago when he was asked what he thought about some people’s positive responses to the assassination of Thompson.

“I think it’s a terrible thing,” Trump said. “I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him; and I was happy to see that it wasn’t specific to this gentleman that was killed. It’s just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness.”

“That was a terrible thing. It was cold-blooded, just a cold-blooded, horrible killing; and how people can like this guy is — that’s a sickness actually,” Trump continued. “That’s really very bad, especially the way it was done. It was so bad. Right in the back. Very bad.”

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Trump added that it was “hard to believe” that people could even think that murdering another person was a good thing.

“A thing like that, you can’t believe that some people — and maybe it’s fake news. I don’t know,” he said. “It’s hard to believe that that can even be thought of, but it seems that there’s a certain appetite for him. I don’t get it.”

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Trump to NBC’s @GarrettHaake on the UnitedHealthCare CEO murder:

“I think it’s terrible. Well, I think it’s terrible. I think it’s a terrible thing. I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him. And I was happy to see that it wasn’t specific to this… pic.twitter.com/9LfK550xI5

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 16, 2024

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