The president employs one of his favorite expressions in the wake of two mass shootings.
While touring Dayton, Ohio’s Miami Valley Hospital last Wednesday, President Trump turned to the staff who have been treating victims of Saturday’s mass shooting that left 9 people dead and wounded another 27 and asked, “Have you ever seen anything like that?”
When Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 40 inches of rain on Texas, submerging much of Houston, leaving 106 Americans dead and racking up an estimated $125 million in U.S. damages, Trump rightly framed the storm in historical terms. When Hurricane Florence took aim at the Carolinas a year later, though, Trump once again saw something potentially unparalleled. “They haven’t seen anything like what’s coming at us in 25, 30 years, maybe ever,” the president said from the Oval Office.
“We’ve never seen anything like this, and California has never seen anything like this,” the president said. When pressed by reporters on the role the climate change had in making the blaze so unusual, Trump seemed to acknowledge that human beings might have a role both in helping effect climate change and in lessening the impact of the wildfires it makes more prevalent.
Trump also likes to tout what he sees as his unmatched effects on the U.S. economy. In his 2019 State of the Union address, he touted his role in what he portrayed as an “economic miracle.”
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