On Friday night, President Donald Trump visited a hospital that is currently treating students wounded in last week’s Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting. The President and First Lady Melania Trump spent 45 minutes speaking to victims, families, first responders, and the medical teams who treated Parkland victims.
Our entire Nation, w/one heavy heart, continues to pray for the victims & their families in Parkland, FL. To teachers, law enforcement, first responders & medical professionals who responded so bravely in the face of danger: We THANK YOU for your courage! https://t.co/3yJsrebZMG pic.twitter.com/ti791dENTy
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2018
But, as has become customary, leftists remained unsatisfied with Trump’s Presidential visit, taking to Twitter to express their deep disgust that the president had the nerve to visit victims, excoriating Trump for his “inaction” on gun control, and comparing him to President Obama who cried and hugged victims at a funeral service in Sandy Hook.
Imagine being injured in a school shooting and realizing that on top of that Trump is coming to visit you at the hospital. Disgusting.
— Antonio Sanchez (@AntonioDrumsX) February 16, 2018
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Whatever the comparisons, Barack Obama wasn’t necessarily better at comforting those touched by a mass shooting, but he was quite adept at refocusing attention that should have been on victims and their family onto himself, often in an effort to capitalize on goodwill in the wake of a tragedy.
For all the comparisons, too, in the arena of gun control, gun restrictions actually loosenedduring Obama’s presidency, and his calls for unity on the subject never yielded results, even when he held both houses of Congress.
