President Trump on Monday misstated the location of one of two mass shootings that occurred over the weekend during a speech condemning the violence, referring to Toledo, Ohio instead of Dayton, Ohio.
“May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo, may God protect them. May God protect all of those from Texas to Ohio. May God bless the victims and their families,” Trump said from the Diplomatic Room of the White House.
The president’s slip came at the end of a 10-Minute speech in which he decried the “barbaric slaughters” in Dayton and El Paso, Texas, which occurred within hours of each other over the weekend.
Trump read his speech from a TelePrompTer, though it’s unclear whether the prepared remarks included Toledo, or if the president simply misspoke.
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"May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo, may God protect them." https://t.co/HXAu0VvEJb
— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2019
The Toledo flub is the perfect metaphor for what's wrong with the whole speech. He cares so little he can't even be bothered to get the name of the city right.
— Gayton Gomez (@gpgomez) August 5, 2019
"May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo."
President Trump mistakenly refers to shooting in Toledo: https://t.co/NWuH0ZeC1l pic.twitter.com/4INHQnbiOv
— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2019
As often happen when Trump reads statements of this sort, he had a lot of trouble with his mouth. pic.twitter.com/yWIR5QIEvU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2019
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