The White House struck back at Newt Gingrinch on Sunday for the presidential wanna-be’s criticism of Obama and his remarks about the Trayvon Martin killing.
The President said on Friday that “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
“I think (Trayvon’s parents) are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” Obama said.
Gingrich, in a radio interview that same day, blasted the President’s comments as “disgraceful.”
“It’s not a question of who that young man looked like,” Gingrich said.
“Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who’d been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn’t look like him? That’s just nonsense.”
White House senior adviser David Plouffe called the former House Speaker’s remarks “reprehensible.