On Monday, President Donald Trump made a statement on the deadly Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, mass shootings that took place on Saturday, but he seemed to have forgotten where the Ohio shooting took place.

In his speech, the president blamed mental health and violent video games as the main causes of mass shootings. He closed his speech with, “May god bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo,” except there was no mass shooting in Toledo.

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The Dayton shooting took the lives of nine people and injured 27. The El Paso shooting claimed 22 lives and wounded another 27.

Trump attacked former President Barack Obama on Twitter after Obama criticized Trump in a statement about inciting violence against immigrants.

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Benjamin Wuersch

Article by Benjamin Wuersch