Trump says he'll 'have a little fun today' visiting shooting victims' families

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published 31 May 2018

In the midst of comments to reporters about the economy and the status of his on-again, off-again summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Trump described his Thursday trip to meet victims of Texas' Santa Fe High School shooting in incongruously upbeat manner.

"Other than that, the economy is good, stock market's up, lotta jobs, best unemployment we've had in many, many decades, actually," Trump said, "and we're going to Dallas, we're going to Houston, and we're gonna have a little fun today. Thank you very much." The "fun" Texas trip he references is the visit with the grieving families of those who were killed and injured in the school attack.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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