MASS SHOOTINGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [8-7-19] will bring a message aimed at national unity and healing to the sites of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. But the words he offers for a divided America will be complicated by his own incendiary, anti-immigrant rhetoric that mirrors language linked to one of the shooters. It is a highly unusual predicament for an American president to at once try to console a community and a nation at the same time he is being criticized as contributing to a combustible climate that can spawn violence. White House officials said Trump’s visits to Texas and Ohio, where 31 people were killed and dozens wounded, would be similar to those he’s paid to grieving communities including Parkland, Florida, and Las Vegas, with the president and first lady saluting first responders and spending time with mourning families and survivors.”
–Jill Colvin, “Trump’s divisive words collide with his call for unity,” The Associated Press, August 6, 2019