With less than a week until the midterm elections, President Trump on Wednesday said he was deploying “many more troops” to the U.S. southern border. Trump has already deployed more than 5,000 troops to the border over a caravan that is still about 1,000 miles away from the U.S.

Our military is being mobilized at the Southern Border. Many more troops coming. We will NOT let these Caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S. Our Border is sacred, must come in legally. TURN AROUND!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018

Rapper Kanye West on Tuesday said that he’s stepping away from politics, after months of developing an increasingly cozy relationship with President Trump.

My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!

— ye (@kanyewest) October 30, 2018

Journalist Julia Ioffe, a correspondent with GQ magazine, apologized on Monday for saying that President Trump had radicalized more people than the Islamic State.

President Trump and the first lady will travel to Pittsburgh on Tuesday in the wake of a deadly shooting massacre at a synagogue, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday at a press briefing.

A segment on Fox News this morning where hosts laughed and joked their way through a discussion on political impact of terror was bizarre. Not even 48 hours since blood flowed at synagogue? Check your soul in the makeup chair!

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 29, 2018

White House communications adviser Mercedes Schlapp on Monday called for unity in the wake of a shooting massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend, while also criticizing Democrats and the media for calling out President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.

Author Tim O’Brien, who wrote “TrumpNation,” on Monday weighed in President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric, which includes calling himself a “nationalist” and accusing the media of being the “enemy of the people.”

“Dog whistles are silent. This is a fire alarm,” O’Brien said on MSNBC. “There’s nothing quiet. It’s not new. Trump has been engaging in this kind of activity for decades.”

Watch:

Tim O'Brien on Trump's rhetoric pic.twitter.com/i7EL5OsL4c

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 29, 2018

Speaking shortly after a deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, President Trump on Saturday said that if the house of worship had armed guards, “the results would have been far better.”

Trump says "results" would have been better if synagogue had armed guards pic.twitter.com/VnSvJJdgnY

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 27, 2018

Asked whether gun laws should be tightened in the wake of the shooting, Trump said: “If they had protection inside the results would have been far better. This is a dispute that will always exist I suspect. But if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn’t, and he was able to do things that unfortunately he shouldn’t have been able to do.”

At least eight people were killed in the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, according to reports. Three officers were shot and a suspect is in custody.

Trump said he would speak about the shooting further at an event later Saturday.

President Donald Trump on Friday criticized the media for being “unbelievably unfair to Republicans,” saying that he could “tone it up” because of that treatment.

“Well I think I’ve been toned down, if you want to know the truth. I could really tone it up because, as you know, the media’s been extremely unfair to me and the Republican Party,” Trump said hours after the FBI arrested a suspect in connection to the mailed pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats and CNN this week.

Trump says he could "tone it up" because the media has been so unfair to Republicans pic.twitter.com/AyD3Q7qq0l

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 26, 2018

Video shows mail bombings suspect being escorted by authorities pic.twitter.com/KaBENQQ7Mq

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 26, 2018