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The following is a representative sampling the headline writers' reaction to Trump's Orlando shooting speech which he gave in New Hampshire yesterday:
Trump stretches facts in fiery post-Orlando speech
Donald Trump Fails the Orlando Shooting Rorschach Test
Trump’s Response to an American's Shooting Spree Is to Conflate Muslims, Immigrants, and Terrorists
After Orlando shooting, Donald Trump demonizes Muslims
Trump blames Obama for Orlando shooting, blasts Clinton
Donald Trump Wishes There Had Been More Armed Orlando Clubgoers Shooting Blindly In The Crowded Room
Trump's Orlando terror speech roundly mocked by conservatives
Orlando Tragedy Proves Trump Wrong, Not Right
Commentary: Donald Trump's alternate reality
What Donald Trump Gets Wrong About Orlando
Donald Trump boasts 'I called it' after Orlando shooting
Trump's Bluster About Radical Islam Helps Radical Islam
Even the rightwing thought it was over the top.
One conservative writer said "this is like right-wing def poetry". Another said, "This pre-written speech really is a dumpster fire. Can only imagine what it would be like if not pre-written".
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After His Terrorism Speech Bombs, A Reeling Donald Trump Bans The Washington Post.
After giving a widely panned, and factually empty, anti-terrorism speech, Donald Trump announced that he was banning The Washington Post because the newspaper reported the truth about his statements.
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Josh Barrow (Business Insider):
I was horrified by Trump's speech - it was the stupidest and scariest speech I've ever heard him give, which is a high bar.
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The NY Times:
Trump repeatedly stretched the facts, for example, in describing the United States as overrun by dangerous migrants.
He claimed the country has an “immigration system which does not permit us to know who we let into our country,” brushing aside the entire customs and immigration enforcement infrastructure.
And he asserted that there was a “tremendous flow” of Syrian refugees, when just 2,805 of them were admitted into the country from October to May, fewer than one-third of the 10,000 Syrians President Obama said the United States would accept this fiscal year.
Mr. Trump described the gunman in the Orlando shooting as “an Afghan,” though he was born an American citizen in New York City to parents who had emigrated from Afghanistan to the United States over three decades ago.
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Glenn Thrush (Politico)
The massacre in Orlando was the first big test of the 2016 general election campaign, and it exposed Donald Trump’s penchant for behaving reality-show small during moments that historically demand the stature of a president.
He could have appeared dignified, controlled, in-command, following the time-tested presidential path blazed by George W. Bush in 2001 and Obama on Sunday. Instead, he bellowed like Ralph Kramden throwing an I-told-you-so over his shoulder at passengers on his bus.
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