Invite These Heroes, Joe

Where’s the White House invitation for the hero cops who stopped deranged Nashville shooter Audrey Hale? As body-cam footage reveals, Nashville PD Officers Michael Collazo and Rex Engelbert rushed the shooter with no heed for their own safety.

They so saved countless lives and deserve every imaginable commendation. So why the silence from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?

The Biden White House has never been shy about inviting other brave souls:

It invited Brandon Tsay, the civilian who disarmed the Monterey Park, Calif., mass shooter, to the 2023 State of the Union.

Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who faced down Jan. 6 rioters, came in this year to receive the Presidential Citizens’ Medal.

For the 2022 signing of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Biden’s gun-control law, the White House invited Dayton massshooting survivor Dion Green, the families of the victims in the 2018 Santa Fe school shooting and many others.

RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the mother and stepdad of Tyre Nichols (murdered by Memphis police officers) were guests at the same SOTU as Brandon Tsay.

K-pop megastars BTS got invited to discuss the rising tide of anti-Asian hate in 2022.

Collazo and Engelbert demonstrated the same valor as Tsay and Goodman. Their story deserves as much attention as Green’s or the Wells’. And they surely have a better claim than BTS.

But the reasons behind the White House’s cold-shoulder are crystal clear. The shooter the two heroes took down was trans — so the Twitter wing of the Democratic Party is in full damage-control mode.

Note the desperate effort to portray trans people generally as the real victims of Hale’s massacre, not the dead adults and children.

And the heroes belong to a group despised by that same wing of the party: the police. (Unless, of course, the cops are federal and they’re busting Trumpist heads.)

While we hope there’s an invite for the Nashville heroes, we suspect there won’t be.

For our utterly cynical president, politics trumps any moral consideration.