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Jonathan Wright

Trump’s response to the Rhode Island shooting? Confirming it happened and then it was back to regularly scheduled programming

With two students dead and nine more in critical condition, the Brown University shooting should be the kind of tragedy that stops a nation in its tracks. Unless, of course, your commander-in-chief has a really cool portrait of himself to show off, one that he hopes will get you in the festive mood.

Between the new Epstein files dilemma and nursing swollen veins because he’s shaken one too many hands in the Oval Office (that’s the official White House explanation for his bandaged hand, anyway), not to mention a Secretary of Defense accused of committing war crimes in the Caribbean, Donald Trump is juggling controversy after controversy like a… well, precisely like a reality show star turned president. And now that another horrifying mass shooting has taken place—this time at Brown University in Rhode Island—it’s the perfect moment for POTUS to revert to what he does best: making it about himself.

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