Trump Tweets Condolences for Wrong Shooting: ‘May God Be With the People of Sutherland Springs’

Lone gunman kills five people in California, but the president offers sympathy for last week’s massacre at a Texas church

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Donald Trump appeared to get his mass shootings mixed up when he offered his condolences for Sutherland Springs, Texas, Tuesday night — in the wake of a massacre in Northern California.

“May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI and Law Enforcement has arrived,” the president tweeted.

However, the latest shooting by a lone gunman — which killed five people and injured 10 more — took place in rural Rancho Tehama, while Sutherland Springs was the location of the church shooting on Nov. 5 where 25 people were gunned down.

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Some Twitter users suggested that Trump may have just been confused by  all the mass shootings in America lately.

Another suggested that the POTUS had a template for his post-massacre messages. “Same tweet. Mass shootings are literally now a “fill-in-the-blank” game for him _________________,” they wrote.

Others said Trump was ignoring Tuesday’s incident because “he hates California.”

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