WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty in response to mass shootings over the weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio.
“These sinister ideologies must be defeated,” he said in remarks at the White House. “Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.” On Saturday, several Mexican citizens were among the 21 people killed at a Walmart by a man who drove from his home in Allen, Texas, 660 miles away, to El Paso, authorities said.
“We must make sure those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms and that if they do those firearms can be taken through rapid due process,” he said, an apparent reference to “red flag” laws. Trump earlier on Monday had called for “strong background checks” on gun buyers, but he did not elaborate on the idea and it was not the central part of his White House statement.That comment drew immediate criticism, with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar accusing Trump of trying to dodge the issue of gun control.
Its pretty obvious
Democrats must not know that most republicans are pro gun, thus POTUS passing gun control would be like Obama restricting abortion when he was president. AintGonnaHappen RedFlagThis
We are a country of alcoholism and drug addicts though.
realDonaldTrump Signed a law repealing the Social Security Administration rule on record submission to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for disability recipients prohibited from possessing guns due to significant mental illness.
He doesn't care about American lives being lost he is more interested in keep his base of white supremacists intact.
Democrats also accusing president Trump of using the bathroom and doesn't close the door.
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The demon rats still don't understand that if laws worked there would be no shootings.
He must think people are stupid, nobody with half a brain believes a word that comes out of Trumps mouth.
Accuse? No, they watch the TV.
S33kerTruth breannamorello it sounds like they just want to fundraise off of those massacres, rather than discuss anything.
CLEAR, THIS GUY IS TOTALLY SICK !!! 🤡🇱🇷🤡🇱🇷🤡🇱🇷🤡🇱🇷🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
He’s the number one offender on social media.
There’s no joy in being right in this instance.
… not behind 'Hate' in the Dayton shooting ! A self proclaimed Socialist fan of Dem Sen E. Warren !
GUN SOLUTION. Only six single shot revolvers are permitted to be held by citizens if desired and all other automatic weapons can only be held by Police and Military plus people possessing certificates issued by a stringent Police body.
Guns are not the problem, people with motives to destroy us are. Until we put fear in them by death penalty, we are just fooling ourselves
I hate Trump as much as the next rational American and I want to preserve our 2A rights even more so, but let's be fair: Trump said he was open to 'Red Flag Laws' and expanded background checks. The tweet is a bit misleading. That said, Trump is the most anti-2A R POTUS ever.
your family don't have people in the country? know anything about respects and us history?
It is a terrible irony that the president and his party are trying to also massacre the tiny amount of mental health advocacy and care we have as their number one policy goal: kill the ACA. While imperfect, the ACA at least mandated mental health be covered. And yet, the GOP: ☠️
Democrats are the problem, not the solution
Maybe Trump shouldn't have signed this bill barely a month after he was inaugurated:
HYPOCRITE
Maybe I’m confused here. Don’t the Dems have a majority in the Congress, and don’t bills originate in the Congress? Are they asking for an “Imperial Presidency”, where the President solves all problems via imperial fiat?
Umm..Trump signed a law removing barriers for those with mental illness to buy firearms
If only these psychopaths had 1 more law they could ignore
It needs to start with him ( Trump) as everyone can recall what a large panel of psychiatrists and psychologists said when he(Trump) entered White House
What a load of bollocks!!?
If trump wants to check people's mental health issues, and Check the internet good. But did he mention The Gun it's self.
Take a look at the GUN, what does it do , what is its purpose. Find out what different effects a loaded weapon has on people , with or without mental problems. A word in anger is a form of self expression. A Gun can multiply anger tenfold.
realDonaldTrump never fails to miss the point! PresidentialStooge
You would have thought he would have worked it out that the US needs to tighten control and monitor guns vote loser
Mental health? You saying this is not a terror attack? Seems Muslims never suffer from health issues 🤣🤣
And less realDonaldTrump tweets/speeches about lousy foreigners, dangerous migrants, invasion, walls, and counting? Surely that would be a great start to appease extremists 😊
Tighter monitoring of the internet, there’s the real agenda. Focus that advertising to a more personal level. Screw the gun control, that’s irrelevant 🤦♂️
Stay out of Wal-Mart
stopsellingguns
Time to rally behind him
.controlling free speech and locking people up without a crime what could go wrong? KremlinRussia_E was this your idea? quick call do it like this don't restrict guns restrict freedom
This could be good. Monitoring Trump for a few days will make it clear just how dangerous he is, how much damage he's already caused, and should lead to censuring him.
If the election was only today. Alas, the GOP counts on Americans’ short memories. So many months away and so many hurdles and gaffes to endure by Democrats along the way.
Ok no more fortnite for USA citizens and millions upon millions of more councilors to support mandatory mental health checking of every USA citizen. With potentially those councilors having the power to lock them up at the first sign of anger or feelings of repression.
Since the perpetrators aren't Muslims he talks about mental health... If they were Muslims he would already talked about terrorism.... He forgot or he didn't want to blame bigotry, hate and racism
Trump racists comments and supported by Republicans in congress have divided and polarized country that will cause more shootings and killings. Trump is president with no social humanitarian and moral understanding need to be replaced before 🇺🇸 US ends up in civil war.
Most want to be shot anyway !
Good news. Maybe he’ll have more luck banning inaccuracies on Twitter 😂
This is “match fixing” political style. They know what to do but choose not to. And we continually elect these bastards.
So he wants MORE BIG BROTHER so they can allow assault weapons? This sounds more and more like 1984, ya know, the Orwell book!
Didn't he rescind Obama law for mental health checks and gun ownership? Internet restrictions? Hoping that means no hate speech.... ah but he will be exempt 'cos he's a world leader aka twitter and facebook? 🤔
Yep, got to stop the internet killing people in shopping malls
Golden Shower's elite prostitutes should be panicking
Mind : No more weapons Trump : tighter monitoring of the internet
VPN.
The best thing that could happen to the internet would be to get this Karrot Koloured Klown to keep his little orange hands off of his fucking keyboard 😁😜🤣
proposes tighter monitoring of the internet !!! sound like communist... kekeke
Thank you for having big tech pitch in and do their part Mr. President. God bless us all. PRAYmore
Or, the lunatic in charge of the asylum
Start with donald trump!
realDonaldTrump
One step closer to Dictatorship
Regulate ANYTHING but the guns.
nothing's gonna change. it's just lip service. the NRA national rifle association is invincible even people's calling for gun control has been roaring.
That will have ZERO impact!
Draconian measures that serve to impose authoritarianism on the public. Instead, champions of free speech would be jailed. If you know your history, all Fascistic leaders, old and contemporary, are alike.
Does that include his own Twitter account?
A mental case promoting mental health. Wow
North Korea style internet
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T TOUCH THE GUNS, RIGHT?
Sooooo, he's cancelling his twitter account?
We pretending Trump is not a psychotic maniac for now I guess? Until his next racist nonsensical diatribe?
The irony of this idiot of a man proposing this is not lost on the world.... 🤣
Trump’s mental health needs intensive monitoring after today’s performance...dementia alert!
White men really are ruining de US huh?
only if his mental health, and controls on his internet access happens first
Hopefully that includes monitoring the accounts of realDonaldTrump and WhiteHouse Donnie is mentally ill
What about stupid Klan rallies (Trump rallies) How about we monitor those?! Seems a few mentally ill people attend them. That’s where Trump creates the hate.
My God, Trump needs to implement a stricter Gun Law as well. He needs a Wake Up Call! Why is Trump so afraid of changing the Gun Law? Just wondering. Lots of people in Scandinavia & Europe are shocked by the fact that Trump doesn’t do a damn thing about the violence in the US
This sounds like Putin. Authoritarian bs.
Try doing it yourself your the biggest one in the bunch you first started with President Obama's birth certificate and it all fell into place
And here we go. Use this to start censoring the internet. He can start with his Twitter account!!!
How convenient of him to become so Orwellian.
Every country has video games , you don't see them shoot eachother.
Is someone monitoring the mental health of your president. You can start from there.
Why is it only white guys with mental illness doing the shooting? The fact that only white dudes are doing this shuts down video game theories.
Ok, now let’s do something about white nationalist domestic terrorists (and yes, before they can vote for you next Nov)
Monitoring himself?
HATE IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS!
Hmmm...maybe they could start by monitoring the 'protesters' outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's house? There are calls to 'stab the m*therf*cker in the heart.'
Use your followers violence as an excuse to seize power. How Moscow of him.
he should get a unbiased mental evaluation it think. it may help him.
It's Trump so they'll probably hate his ideas, but he's right on Target here.
But not assault rifles
Did you see the font of the words on the Teleprompter? Trump is too vain to wear glasses.
I hope this applies to himself as well because alot of his tweets fall in the category he described
Agree
Trumps reads, not says...let’s be honest.
He assigned blame to the internet, media, videogames & mentalillness. Didn’t realize that all of these were unique to the USA
He sent prayers to Toledo Ohio instead of Dayton.
“Dark recesses of the internet” includes realDonaldTrump twitter feed!! Ban him from Twitter!
im laughing too hard. LOL he exacerbsted this mess‼️‼️‼️
Lame, weak delivery. Clearly those are not his words, but they are somewhat based on reality. The irony is that he is describing himself and his own social media identity and messaging as the problem. He is condemning himself, so his concern is nonexistent.
What a great man and President...America is blessed.
That was also after Trump had been on endless tweet storms espousing racist, bigoted and white supremacist ideas, including the promotion of violence.
His racist rants and attacks against Hispanics, Mexicans and People of colour have gone on for years and are all documented. Now he is reaping the bloody whirlwind of all the seeds he planted.
Let’s judge him by his actions and not his promises.
How can we possibly 'condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy' without condemning Trump?
Reuters Stenography Service. Disassociative slugs written by interns with no experience. The neutered media rolls over to show its belly.
But he won’t condemn it.
I don't think there's an intelligent person in world that believes anything this guy says anymore
He didn’t say it, he read it. It’s an important distinction.
'Americans' have, but we are still waiting for donald to do so. My prediction... he will hint at it until his next rally where he will go full bore white nationalist the moment he opens his slime filled assmouth.
I just wish the quote said, 'I, Donald Trump, do not condone racism, bigotry or white supremacism.'. But very sadly and unfortunately that's not what was said.
We do. That’s why his racism, bigotry and white supremacy will be articles of his impeachment.
Very good... that is the response I was looking for. :) I was very UPSET after I heard you try to blame it on mental illness = something they call you! Tell the NRA they are going in the wrong direction with their support of involuntary psychiatry. cc: realDonaldTrump
By the time you get to this tweet, you will have read at least 20 tweets by people who suffer with what is commonly known as T.D.S.
Nice prompter reading dumpster fire. Pretty sad that he can’t demonize racism, white supremacy or hatred without being persuaded to do so by others. Sad.
Trump has created this atmosphere with racism and biogotry!
I wonder who wrote the text on the teleprompter. The Puppet POTUS45 read the words in a nearly perfunctory performance. But his hypocrisy is sickening. 🤮
Let me fix your headline: “Trump read from a teleprompter”
Does Trump's call include humans with links to shithole countries? This man has no shame.
You should play what has happened in so many of his hate rallies instead.
i’ve seen hostage videos with more energy than this
I don't give a lovely fukkk what that IDIOT read from the teleprompter poorly! He is the INCITOR in Chief! He should be in prison! WhiteSupremacistInChief WhiteSupremacistInChief WhiteSupremacistInChief WhiteSupremacistInChief WhiteSupremacistInChief
Yet this will never be enough for liberals.
GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY!
Then...... I condemn realDonaldTrump For the good of America, he must RESIGN
Unlike him, of course.
Aleluya! He should have acted against that shitty behaviour since day 1 of his presidency.
Wait for his next rally to see what he really thinks. This was teleprompted.
Ok I’ll start: I condemn President Trump and his toxic, hateful, divisive racist rhetoric.
How can realDonaldTrump condemn the very people that make up his base. The same people that he was laughing and joking with when he questioned how illegal immigration could be stopped. The response “shoot them”. His response...laughter. He needs to go, and go now. TrumpMustGo
Notice DJT is back sniffing before reading lies again. dumpgop
If anybody believed you they don’t
He condemns it then incites hatred and fans the flames of racism at his rallies. Sorry trump, you can’t have it both ways.
Too many lies.
Another one of your lakies
realDonaldTrump TheDemocrats GOP
Donald Trump of Warpedmind Ravishedheart Devouredsoul terrorist bigot racist gtconway3d AC360
After reading the posts, it's obvious it doesn't matter what Trump says, the left will never be content! For a party that is anti-hate, they sure do preach a lot of it... Trumpspeech
In Toledo......
No. He didn’t.
Which is bizarre considering he's a white supremacist and a bigot, who's constant racist hate speech is responsible.
who wrote that speech? Trump doent believ any of that. It was clear when he said Toledo instead of Dayton
Between the lines one can hear Trump say 'I'm being forced to read these words that are not mine and that I do not believe.'
No he doesn't - he's just reading someone else's words from a teleprompter without any feeling whatsoever.
Your headline distorts the reality. This is how the abhorrent becomes normalized.
Hypocrite
The sweet effect of a re-election around the corner, but ask him again after that, his answer will 'surprise' you
Pretends to condemn, sluggishly reads words written for him on a teleprompter. Will resume hate rallies and toxic politics and demagoguery of division tomorrow.
Why does this look like a deepfake video?
While Trump dog whistles and retweets neonazis
Hmm, why do these hate groups he “condemns” love him so much? Clearly, it’s more than the tax cuts and spray-on skin complexion...
In Toledo.
Seems a bit tight.
Stephen Miller .
Except the ones who are very fine people.
You mean he condemned himself? That will be the day.
But won’t change a thing.
Condemn the hate groups! Call them out one by one! Pass gun legislation! Condemn automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the hands of citizens. DO SOMETHING REAL!
Replace internet with WhiteHouse!
For now
realDonaldTrump too little too late. TrumpsTerrorists TrumpIsAFelon MoscowMitch
Trump supporters, Trump is playing you, and you game him support. What does that make you?
He fuelled it It’s a trade off He wants his immigration legislation through
POS
Yikes, this deepfakevideo is scarily good! Of course, the real Trump would never say any of these things, but otherwise...almost impossible to see it’s a fake!
He reads a teleprompter with words he doesn’t believe or understand!! Report the facts!!! They are not his words!! Trump is a racist white supremacist radicalizing domestic terrorists! trumpTerrorists!
Too late! Trump=Hate
LOL. No thinking person actually believes he means what somebody wrote for him to say. Do better Reuters. Your headline sucks (again)
While winking at White Christian Nationalists and the NRA
So the guy is condemning himself?
He should apologize for promoting it!
🤔 jetzt wirklich fakenews ?
Actions, not words. America needs to see action from a guy who has done nothing but promote bigotry.
*Trump condemns himself
He's an old tycoon who was told what to say AND told to read the teleprompter but he can't really read it so he kinda remembers what he was told to say. He's an old man. This is your hero. This is your villain.
You can feel the emotion pouring out.
Pot and kettle come to mind
TRUMP IS WHITE NATIONALIST AND A BIGOT
you mean, he reads condemnation words from a teleprompter, and sometimes not correctly....He looks and sounds terrible by the way. I think he needs to see a doctor.
Your headline is spreading propaganda. “Trump reverses rhetoric in scripted speech about white supremacy and bigotry.” Maybe something like that.
After massacres, Trump pretends to condemn white supremacy and bigotry. Fixed it....
🤔
It's not the first time he's condemned it. Your piece is misleading and defamatory. Your bias is sickening
Pretends to condemn....
Wink wink 😉
Too funny. ImpeachDonaldTrumpNOW
Yea because the election is getting closer
Pretty sure trumpy does not write his own text anyway lol