Jesus wept

Speaking to reporters on the White House’s South Lawn on Wednesday, President Trump claimed he was warmly welcomed at hospitals in the wake of recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, and intimated that surgeons had even deserted their patients to meet him.

“The doctors were coming out of the operating rooms,” Trump said. “There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldn’t even walk on it.”

  WaPo

Well, if you're god, as he now seems to think he is, can't you walk above it?

But the hospitals he visited say that isn’t what happened — and that doctors would never pause surgery to greet the president.

Well, no shit.

Trump visited University Medical Center earlier this month, days after a gunman police say was motivated by anti-immigrant hatred killed 22 and wounded dozens at a Walmart. Although two patients who had already been discharged returned to the hospital to meet the president, none of the eight victims who were still being treated wanted to do so, Mielke told The Post at the time.

“This is a very sensitive time in their lives,” he said. “Some of them said they didn’t want to meet with the president, some of them didn’t want any visitors.”

The rejection apparently stung, because Trump returned to the subject on Wednesday, weeks after his visit to the city. When asked during a freewheeling exchange with reporters if he had spoken to the victims of mass shootings about whether they would support changes to gun laws, he ignored the question and instead took the opportunity to complain about news coverage of his visits to El Paso and Dayton.

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["I]f you read the papers, it was like nobody would meet with me.”

That wasn’t true, he insisted: “Not only did they meet with me, they were pouring out of the room.”

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Trump visited both hospitals on Aug. 7, and reporters were not allowed to be present. The White House previously painted a glowing picture of his appearance at University Medical Center of El Paso, saying that the president was “received very warmly by not just victims and their families, but by the many members of medical staff who lined the hallways to meet them.” Similarly, White House social media director Dan Scavino wrote on Twitter that Trump “was treated like a Rock Star” at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, where the president met with three victims of the mass shooting that killed nine and injured dozens in the city’s entertainment district just hours after the massacre in El Paso.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.