Good god, making this about Trump. People are just OBSESSED with the man. When he loses in Nov, I think some folks are going to have a hard time knowing what to do with themselves. (OR.. they'll just keep the obsession rolling. I hate to say it, but I KNOW it'll be the later.)
As for all the calling a bomb going off a bombing- and beyond that calling a bombing 'terrorism' stuff:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/new-york-explosion/
CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes said the information authorities have revealed so far about the blast leads him to a troubling conclusion.
"It tells me that it was a rather large explosive device that someone built and someone detonated and caused the injury of dozens of people. ... It shows me it's a deliberate act and indicates an act of terrorism," he said. "Whether it's domestic terrorism or international, we don't know, but it certainly would have an appearance that somebody made an attempt to kill people, on purpose."
But CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem said it's too soon to label the blast a terror attack without knowing the motivations behind the explosion. Terrorism, she said, generally has political or religious motives behind it.
"I think it's premature to call it terrorism until we know -- unless you want to define terrorism as any violent act in an urban area -- but given that there's no proof of motivation, you wouldn't be able to bring a terrorism case, so to speak, today," she said. "You certainly would be able to bring other types of cases if you found the culprit."
Another obsession we as a society have all stumbled into, what to label something, as if it really mattered a whole hill of beans.
In my book, it's not unreasonable to call someone deliberately placing a large explosive device in public, designed to kill indiscriminately, terrorism, as opposed to just random ordinary crime, drug dealers shooting each other etc. It's not just a "violent act", - a violent act is a mugger stabbing a victim deliberately. There's a 'terror" objective always to doing something like placing a large bomb where you know it will kill and injure a bunch of random people, and the perp isn't even anywhere nearby. (No, no no zaap! Some people just plant bombs and set them off in random crowds as a really efficient way of mugging people!)
Of course, one shouldn't jump to conclusions without facts about WHO is responsible, but just the label of terrorism in such an incident I don't think is misplaced. And calling a bombing a bombing... come on. That's just nitpicky stupid.
But then again, I get that all these stupid labels have become politicized, so now everyone is afraid of having their political bogeymen triggered just by using the labels. (ie: terrorism= "You MUST mean Islamic!")