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The president blamed white supremacy, the internet, video games and mental illness for the massacres. He did not blame guns or himself.
Trump called the attacks evil and barbaric and denounced the shooters as wicked.
We vow to act with urgent resolve, he said.
Trump mentioned the alleged El Pasos shooters reported manifesto, which the president said was consumed by racist hate. He then called on the nation to condemn racism and white supremacy, while not acknowledging his role in promoting those ideas.
Trump directed social media companies to develop tools to identify mass shooters before they strike.
The perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored, and will not be ignored, said Trump, who regularly promotes hate speech on his Twitter feed.
He also blamed the shootings on a culture that glorifies violence, and on mental health. Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger ― not the gun, he said.
Reading his remarks from a teleprompter, Trump mistakenly named Toledo instead of Dayton as the location of Saturday nights shooting.
[link:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-response-mass-shootings-el-paso-dayton_n_5d4834f0e4b0acb57fd01d85|
Of course it has nothing to do with him...nothing...nadda - *rolls eyes*
I don't understand why he is not owning it. All the best nazi's are proud of their mass murdering - he is never going to make it into the global illiberal authoritarian club when he is too much of a fucking coward to own his nasty... heh
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)He will use his hate-filled rhetoric to BLAME the media for overblowing this.
The PROBLEM is Trump.
lark
(23,099 posts)He is the person in charge of shutting down the FBI's white nationalist investigations, shut down the entire division to ensure nothing got done. He will not do anything he said at all, just meaningless BS to try to appear human, when he totally is celebrating the deaths of brown people by his chosen killers.
spanone
(135,832 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)Why aren't mass shootings common elsewhere? Just wondering.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Uh, Oh !!
Initech
(100,076 posts)And his and their increasingly violent rhetoric. They are completely out of control. If they heard it from him, maybe it would help. But that's a big "maybe".
durablend
(7,460 posts)That genie is out of the bottle and not going back in.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)global1
(25,247 posts)In his comments today Trump directed social media companies to develop tools to identify mass shooters before they strike.
Reading Trump's tweets - he could very well be identified and characterized as a future mass shooter. He seems to have the same qualifications. Just saying.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)Especially when dealing with conservatives.