So Donald Trump Jr. floated the idea that Montana residents shoot down the balloon themselves — and police then had to warn locals about not taking potshots at the balloon.
Besides being logistically impossible, stray bullets could have killed other people.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
If Joe Biden and his administration are too weak to do the obvious and shoot down an enemy surveillance balloon perhaps we just let the good people of Montana do their thing… I imagine they have the capability and the resolve to do it all themselves.
After Trump Jr’s tweet, the bird universe had a field day. We liked this one:
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It’s 11 miles up, you blithering simpleton.