I am not going to use the excuse “but your guy did it” but it is what it is and that is politics. Politicians know there is a mic on no matter who is in the audience.
One of the most despicable things that I have ever seen a politician do in front of an audience was when Obama spoke at the memorial for the five officers gunned down in the mass murder in Dallas. They were there to honor the lives of police officers were killed for doing the job. It should have been left at that, shouldn’t it? But no, in his “memorial” to officers killed in the line of duty, he brings up slavery and Jim Crow laws.
While I know that Trump was using the Boy Scouts as a platform to make yet another political speech, doesn’t the other side do exactly the same thing? It is mighty selective to point out a political speech on one side when it is not really called for when the previous guy in the same position did exactly the same thing. Trump does not get a pass because Obama did. It is not tit-for-tat. Sometimes we need to look in the mirror when we call people pathetic.