Trump fails to praise Waffle House hero — who happens to be black

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Just as pilot Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger should never have to pay for a drink or a flight ticket after miraculously landing a doomed plane in the middle of the Hudson River, Waffle House hero James Shaw Jr. should never have to buy breakfast again in his life.

Not a bagel, not an omelete, and certainly not a waffle.

Not after confronting an armed gunman and snatching the still-hot assault rifle from his itchy hands before the shooter, who killed four people Sunday at a Nashville Waffle House, took off.

President Trump, who, after the Florida school shooting in February said he would confront a mass shooter “even if I didn’t have a weapon,” has yet to utter a public peep about someone who actually did.

Shaw, 29, who just so happens to be black, hasn’t even gotten a tweet from the Twitter-addicted President.

After a good Samaritan, Stephen Willeford, used his own rifle to exchange shots with a gunman responsible for the deadliest shooting in Texas history, a church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Trump did everything but pin a Medal of Honor on the man's chest.

Willeford, 55, was even the guest of a Texas congressman at Trump's State of the Union address.

“Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise it wouldn’t have been as bad as it was,” Trump said at the time of the November mass shooting. “It would have been much worse.”

Willeford was no less of a hero than Shaw for using his rifle to confront a gunman from across the street.

But Shaw actually got hit by a bullet. He burned his hand on the shooter’s smoking gun.

Can a brother get a tweet?

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