Never let it be said that President Donald Trump isn't a great judge of character. He's also pretty blunt in voicing these assessments, and no more so than when he's assessing a leftist nincompoop like Minnesota's Governor, Tim "Great Walz of China." In the aftermath of the targeted political assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, and the attempted murder of others, along with the capture of the killer, President Trump announced that he wouldn't be calling Governor Walz.

Why? Because it would waste time.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ruled out calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers, saying that to do so would “waste time.” 

One lawmaker and her husband were killed, and the second legislator and his wife sustained serious injuries in the shootings early Saturday. A suspect surrendered to police on Sunday.

The Republican president spoke to reporters early Tuesday aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington after abruptly leaving an international summit in Canada because of rising tensions in the Middle East between Israel and Iran. Asked if he had called Walz yet, Trump said the Democratic governor is “slick” and “whacked out” and, “I’m not calling him.”

Well, about Tim Walz being "whacked out," it's hard to disagree with the president's assessment. And he had more to say on the matter:

“I don’t really call him. He’s slick — he appointed this guy to a position,” Trump said. “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I’m not calling him. why would I call him?

“I could call him and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’” Trump continued. “The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a, he’s a mess. So, you know, I could be nice and call him but why waste time?”

Trump’s mention of “this guy” being appointed to a position appeared to be a reference to Vance Boelter, the suspect who surrendered to police after a nearly two-day manhunt in Minnesota.

Now, the president will probably come in for some criticism from both sides of the aisle for this. It's pretty traditional, after all, for a president to make a call to a governor when there has been some major event in that governor's state, like a natural disaster or a major crime. This, a targeted political assassination, would certainly qualify as a major crime, and as far as the assassin goes, we might add that we still don't have a really great grip on what this guy's deal was or what tipped him over the edge.

But Tim Walz? It's hard to see any conversation with Minnesota's hoptoad-eyed governor as anything but a waste of time.

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We might also note that the president has a lot on his plate right now; he's trying to kick illegal aliens out of the country, he's trying to negotiate trade deals with, well, the rest of the planet, he's trying to get the American economy back on track and oh, our ally Israel is still bombing the bejeebers out of Iran, and it's not at all unlikely that Iran may launch a few missiles at U.S. installations in the Middle East just because.

There is one thing he could do to forestall criticism on this, and that would be a quick call to Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, who were wounded by suspect Vance Boelter and are now recovering. No policy statement, just a quick "How are you doing?" and "We're nailing this guy with federal charges and are going to try to have him slammed into Death Row." That would satisfy the humanitarian gesture front as well as showing leadership, and may be an even more delicious snub to the Minnesota governor than ignoring the state altogether.

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