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Trump’s Visit to El Paso and Dayton Today

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What good does anyone think will come out of Trump making these visits? No one believes he will stop his hateful rhetoric. He has proven and time again that he knows nothing about compassion and empathy.

These poor families are dealing with unbearable pain. Would it have been to much to ask to let these families bury their loved one before Trump made a visit?

Trump actually said today that he believes his rhetoric is bringing people together. WTH!!!
 
An excerpt from an article in "The New York Times" about the visits today.

"Trump Visits Dayton and El Paso
The president is visiting two cities in mourning after horrific mass shootings in Ohio and Texas.

By Michael D. Shear

  • Aug. 7, 2019

President Trump arrived Wednesday morning at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where White House officials said he planned to thank emergency and hospital workers and visit with families and victims of the city’s tragic shooting.

The president was greeted at the airport by the city’s mayor and other officials. His motorcade passed two recreational vehicles adorned with pro-Trump signs and flags as well as one man standing outside of a store advertising survival supplies with a sign that appeared to object to so-called red-flag laws that prevent people with mental illness from getting guns: 'Red Flag is Dystopic Future.'

He planned to visit El Paso later in the day.

Trump attacks his critics on Twitter before visiting cities in mourning.

Mr. Trump began a day set aside for healing by delivering a series of political grievances against liberals and the media, once again using Twitter to exhibit the divisive language that has prompted some in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, to protest his visits after horrific shootings in those cities.

The president’s press secretary said Mr. Trump planned to honor victims, comfort families and thank emergency workers 'for their heroic actions.'

That wasn’t the message that Mr. Trump wanted to deliver Wednesday morning as he ignored calls from community leaders and residents to stay away. Around midnight, he attacked Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate, on Twitter, mocking him for having a 'phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage' and boasting that he 'trounced him' when Mr. Trump held a rally in El Paso in February.

In a tweet on Wednesday morning, the president attacked the 'Failing New York Times' and the 'Radical Left Democrats' over a headline in The Times. A few minutes later, Mr. Trump quoted a conservative television news outlet’s reporting that 'the Dayton, Ohio, shooter had a history of supporting political figures like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and ANTIFA.'

'I hope other news outlets will report this as opposed to Fake News,' Mr. Trump wrote. 'Thank you!'

But the president’s Twitter outbursts underscored the complaints of Mr. O’Rourke and others who have said Mr. Trump was unwelcome in their communities because his presence would inflame tensions rather than soothe them. If the president has heard those complaints, he declined to change the combative tone he has embraced since the earliest days of his presidency.

On Monday, Mr. Trump delivered a short speech from a teleprompter in which he condemned 'racism, bigotry, and white supremacy' and said that 'hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.'

Before he departed on Wednesday, he said that 'we’re going to take the opportunity to really congratulate the first responders.' And he dismissed criticism about his use of divisive language. 'I think my rhetoric brings people together,' he said. 'Our country is doing really well.'

It is unclear which president will assert himself in Dayton and El Paso — a healer in chief who brings a disciplined embrace of consolation and a rejection of hate, or a politically divisive chief executive who has spent years railing about the dangers from illegal immigrants and stoking fear to rally his supporters.

Before leaving, he lashed out at the mayor of Dayton, calling her a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders and of antifa, a radical leftist group. The president also rejected calls to abandon the way he talks about immigrants, saying that 'illegal immigration is a terrible thing for this country' and insisting that 'we have very many people coming in. They are pouring in to this country.'

Mr. Trump also used language that echoed his 'both sides' comments after the neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville in 2017, saying on Wednesday that 'I’m concerned about the rise of any type of hate. I don’t like it. Any type of supremacy, whether it’s white supremacy or antifa'"
 
"It's just meat and mascarpone cheese down there." :lol::lol::lol:
 
soxfan said:
Surprised he didn't go to Toledo instead.
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O M G!! RIGHT?!? I was HORRIFIED, when he completely screwed that up!!!! “GAH!! Are you for REAL, POS OTUS???” :eek2:
 
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