President Donald Trump is going to meet with high school students on Wednesday at Parkland Florida after 17 teenagers were killed in a school shooting.
The White House said on Sunday that President Trump will be hosting a “listening session” with both students and teachers on Wednesday, while on Thursday he will be discussing school safety with state and local officials.
Meanwhile, high school students are most active advocates for new gun laws in response to last Wednesday’s shooting.
The Hill reported that Emma Gonzalez, a student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the shooting took place, called out Trump during an impassioned speech at a pro-gun control rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, roughly 40 miles from where the president is spending the holiday weekend.
“If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened, and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I’m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association,” Gonzalez said. “I already know — $30 million.”
Trump previously visited injured victims and their families at a nearby hospital while meeting with the first responders and law enforcement officer, during which time Trump made no mention of new gun laws. However, the president criticized former President Barack Obama and Democrats for not tightening the nation’s gun laws when they had both houses in Congress.
“Just like they don’t want to solve the DACA problem, why didn’t the Democrats pass gun control legislation when they had both the House & Senate during the Obama Administration. Because they didn’t want to, and now they just talk!” Trump tweeted Saturday.
Trump’s public comments over the weekend also focused on the new indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s election interference.
The president blamed the FBI for missing signs about the suspected gunman troubled past because it is “spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – there is no collusion.”
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