Yuri Gripas/ReutersShortly after he woke up at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump began preparing to travel to two different but similarly broken American cities. He was going there to comfort and visit the grieving communities, victims, and medical staff affected by recent high-profile mass
Shortly after he woke up at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump began preparing to travel to two different but similarly broken American cities. He was going there to comfort and visit the grieving communities, victims, and medical staff affected by recent high-profile mass shootings.
At his swing through Dayton, Ohio, the president visited the Miami Valley Hospital, where White House aides said he planned to thank hospital and emergency personnel, and meet with shooting victims and family members. The event was closed to the press, but Democratic politicians Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton’s mayor, Nan Whaley, who met with Trump on Wednesday, told reporters that those at the hospital appeared appreciative and “grateful” for Trump and first lady Melania Trump’s visit.
Once in Texas, the president headed to El Paso’s University Medical Center, where some crowds of protesters had been waiting nearby for him for hours. Upon arrival, Trump’s visit there was also closed to the press. Indeed, for as unpredictable as Trump can be during any given moment, his actions following instances of mass gun violence have become fairly routine: a scripted response, a nod toward legislative action, a visit with the survivors—all overshadowed by histrionics and followed by political stalemates.During Trump’s speech at the White House on Monday morning, he once again stuck to the teleprompter, ostensibly condemning “racist hate” but conspicuously laying off the firearms.
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