President
Barack Obama gave an impassioned speech on Tuesday, blasting presumptive
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for his anti-Muslim comments in
the wake of Sunday’s Orlando, Florida, shooting.
“We now have
proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United
States to bar all Muslims from immigrating to America,” Obama said. “We hear
language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities
are complicit in violence. Where does this stop?”
On Monday,
Trump reiterated his ban on Muslims immigrants and descriptions of them as a
“Trojan horse” in a terrifying speech that also made vague accusations seeming
to allege that Orlando’s Muslims knew that Omar Mateen was going to stage an
attack but didn’t do anything about it.
“[The
Muslims] know what’s going on. They know that he was bad,” Trump said. “They
knew the people in San Bernardino were bad. But you know what? They didn’t turn
them in. And you know what? We had death, and destruction.”
Obama’s
remarks were a direct rebuke to this sort of language pitting “us” non-Muslim
Americans against “them” Muslims. The president noted that Mateen, one of the
killers in the aforementioned San Bernardino rampage, and the Fort Hood shooter
were all American citizens.
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