Trump Comments On London Attack: ‘Some Big News’ Just Happened

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to an attack in London that police are treating as a terrorist incident, calling it “some big news.”

“Some big news having to do with London just happened,” he said in front of White House pool reporters.

CNN and NBC News reported that Trump was briefed on the attack in Westminster, which London police said they are treating as a “terrorist incident” until they receive information to the contrary.

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  1. No expression of sadness or concern for the victims…He’s unbelievable.
    Any wonder that this is also breaking:

    “Melania,” a family source alleges in the new issue of Us Weekly, “does not keep hidden from everyone around her how miserable she is"… even on the rare occasions when they sleep in the same city. “They have separate bedrooms,” says another Trump insider. “They never spend the night together — ever"…Upset with the former reality star for trapping her in a life she despises, “Melania wants as little to do with Donald as possible,” explains the family source.

  2. Avatar for fess fess says:

    Couldn’t he at least try to use his Big Boy words? He sounds like the 5th grade class president, not the supposed leader of the Free World.

  3. This is what he’s been waiting for. Next comes the big fat “I told you so”.
    And if it’s really big or when something similar happens here we coronate Trump as Donald the I, King of the US.
    Just watch - it’ll be sickening.

  4. Avatar for win win says:

    FEB 8 2017
    The mother of a young backpacker killed in an Australian hostel has criticized President Donald Trump’s claim that her daughter’s murder was a terror attack ignored by the media.

    A 29-year-old French national, Smail Ayad, was charged over the August killings. He was given a preliminary diagnosis of schizophrenia and remains at a mental health facility in Brisbane.

    Police said Ayad shouted “Allahu akbar” — Arabic for “God is great” — during the attack and his subsequent arrest but they could find no connections to radical Islam and treated the case a homicide rather than a terror attack.

    “Any fool can shout ‘Allahu akbar’ as they commit a crime,” Ayliffe said in an open letter to Trump posted on social media on Tuesday. “I have spoken to friends of Mia’s and other backpackers who worked for long days in the fields with Ayad, and none of them ever saw him put down a prayer mat.”

  5. The people of Bowling Green thank the President for his kind words of support.

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