Cherub-Faced Youngster Admits to the World He Set Protest Fire to Say ���Screw Our President���

If you happened to watch much inauguration coverage, then you surely saw the heavy airtime given to pockets of especially destructive protesters in the nation���s capital.

By now, the social narrative over the last few years has been so heavily characterized by vitriol, vile speech, property destruction, and physical assaults that many, sad to say, have come to take in stride behaviors and events that once would have left most of us entirely dumbstruck.

That said, there are still moments that manage to leave a great number of us stunned. One of those occurred Friday night, outside the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where a group of Trump protesters had assembled and started a fire.

It was not, however, the igniting of the fire that was so notable. It was the profile and demeanor of the person who openly took credit for starting it.
A young boy, likely between 10 and 12 years of age.

Correspondent Griff Jenkins was covering the events for Fox News��� Tucker Carlson Tonight when the boy approached him on camera to say that he had ���kind of started the fire.���

When Jenkins asked him why he had done it, the young man responded, ���Because I felt like it and I���m just sort of saying, screw our President.���

Lacy MacAuley, a spokeswoman for the group DisruptJ20 that was behind so much of the Inauguration Day protests, told Jenkins that ���we have to really be concerned about this dangerous direction our country is going in.���

Do you suppose she was including a young boy���s proud, public declaration that he had just started a fire to say ���screw the president��� as a sign of that ���dangerous direction?���

Right.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large