Trump went to pay his respects and command the first responders….
The crowds at both cities where in the streets protesting Trump comments about white power types in the past and his attacks against immigrants….
Trump was kept away from the protesters and crowds….
Reports are that he acted with a ‘fury’ because in going to0 El Paso?
THERE WHERE protests against his anti-immigrant actions….
It was NOT a ‘successful ‘ day for Trump by any means….He DOES have problems showing sympathy for anyone but HIMSELF.…
President Trump visited Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso on Wednesday on a day intended as a show of compassion to cities scarred by a weekend of violence, but which quickly devolved into an occasion for anger-fueled broadsides against Democrats and the news media.
Mr. Trump’s schedule was meant to follow the traditional model of apolitical presidential visits with victims, law enforcement officials and hospital workers after calamities like the mass shootings that resulted in 31 deaths in Dayton and El Paso and that created a new sense of national crisis over assault weapons and the rise of white supremacist ideology.
That plan went awry even before Mr. Trump, who has acknowledged his discomfort with showing empathy in public, departed Washington. On Tuesday night, he tweeted that the former Democratic congressman from El Paso, Beto O’Rourke, should “be quiet.” As he prepared to leave the White House on Wednesday morning, he went after the former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr., who said in a speech that day that Mr. Trump had “fanned the flames of white supremacy.” Both men are running for president and have been particularly harsh in their criticism of Mr. Trump after the two shootings, and Mr. Trump rose to the bait.
The result was the latest example of Mr. Trump’s penchant for inflaming divisions at moments when other presidents have tried to soothe them, and further proof of his staff’s inability to persuade him to follow the norms of presidential behavior.
For People’s Information…..
While visiting shooting victims and medical personnel at a hospital in El Paso, a video shows President Trump started bragging about the size of the crowd at his rally before attacking Beto O’Rourke….
Politicalwire…
Donald Trump has been and always will be about Donald Trump….
More on Trump’s visits yesterday….
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN that aides to President Trump think he behaved disastrously yesterday while he was supposed to be consoling the victims of the El Paso and Dayton shootings.
Said Haberman: “Most people – while they would I suspect not say that publicly – will privately admit that yesterday was something of a debacle. These are not the headlines they wanted to see. They wanted him to go in and behave differently. The goal was to go in and get out with as little news as possible.”…
Politicalwire….
The way now thing I can say about that is….
When does he Not behave disastrously?
A few days ago George Conway predicted that Trump would give an uneventful teleprompter address. Them when he didn’t get praise for it he would stew and eventually last out.
And that’s exactly what happened.
Lash out
I do NOT understand how that man stays married and she keeps her job….
When Trump exits?
They gotta be good for MILLIONS on a book deal!