DEMS/MASS SHOOTINGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump departed the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday [8-7-19], he told officials traveling with him the visit was a smash success. After flashing thumbs-up and taking selfies with nurses and staff, Trump deemed the reception at the level 1 trauma center — where dozens of victims were treated this weekend following a mass gun murder — sufficiently warm. It was only later, as he watched from Air Force One while two local Democratic officials described their frustration at his divisive rhetoric and unclear gun control priorities, that he soured. Jetting to the scene of a second massacre, Trump lashed out. Instead of imparting the sympathetic grief that his tour of killing zones was meant to illustrate, it was he who appeared aggrieved. And instead of highlighting his interactions with the shootings’ victims, it was his own perceived victimhood — at the hands of Democrats and the media — that he thrust upon two stricken communities.”
–Kevin Liptak, “Trump gripes about his critics while at the scene of tragedy,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 7, 2019 10: 38 pm