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Donald Trump Praises Himself In Parkland Anniversary Message

Today is the anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when 14 students and three faculty members lost their lives in Parkland, Fla.

In the days after the shooting, Donald Trump expressed support for universal background checks and raising the age to buy an assault weapon to 21. He even seemed to entertain a ban on assault weapons.

A year later, on the anniversary of that wrenching tragedy, the White House released a lengthy statement from Trump offering his condolences and listing all the ways his administration had “made tremendous strides” in protecting students from school violence.

Missing from that list is anything to address gun violence, except for his administration’s ban on bump stocks.

The only direct reference to gun violence comes at the end of his statement: “Melania and I join all Americans in praying for the continued healing of those in the Parkland community and all communities where lives have been lost to gun violence.”

Except hours later, in the image Trump tweeted out about his statement, he changed the reference from “gun violence” to “school violence,” a bizarre and telling tweak.

And Twitter noticed:

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