President Joe Biden is appearing on late night TV for the first time as President of the United States.
26.05.2022 - 00:41 / deadline.com
For the second time in less than two weeks, President Joe Biden will personally go to the site of a fatal mass shooting in America.
“Jill and I will be traveling to Texas in the coming days to meet with the families and let them know we have a sense of their pain, and hopefully bring some little comfort to a community in shock, in grief and in trauma,” a clearly anguished Commander-in-chief told a gathering at the White House today.
“I think we all must be for them, everyone,” Biden added.
On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio and killed 19 fourth-grade students, a teacher and another adult. The nation’s 212th mass shooting this year, the Lone Star state tragedy also saw 17 other individuals injured.
The killings come after an 18-year old white nationalist murdered 13 people at a Tops Friendly Market in a African-American neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. The President and the First Lady travelled to the Empire State site to pay their respects and privately meet with mourning families on May 17.
Speaking on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One to return to DC, Biden lamented the failed efforts after massing shooting after massing shooting to reign in the violence and proliferation of guns in America. POTUS said that reform was “going to be very difficult, but I’m not going to give up trying.
The May 24 massacre in almost boarder town of Uvalde is the worst school shooting in the gun plagued nation in almost a decade. On December 14, 2012, a rifle baring 20-year old killed 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Similiar to the Uvalde killer, the Newtown shooter murdered an older female family member before going on
President Joe Biden is appearing on late night TV for the first time as President of the United States.
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BTS will meet Joe Biden in the White House next week to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes.The K-pop band have been invited to address the issue with the US President along with “Asian inclusion and representation”.According to a press release, the band will join Biden on Tuesday (May 31) to also talk about BTS’ “platform as youth ambassadors who spread a message of hope and positivity across the world.”It goes on to say: “President Biden has previously spoken about his commitment to combating the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes and signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in May 2021 to provide law enforcement with resources to identify, investigate, and report hate crimes and ensure that hate crimes information is more accessible to AA and NHPI communities.”K-pop supergroup BTS is coming to the White House next week pic.twitter.com/muC8CJyOeQ— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) May 26, 2022BTS previously appeared at the United Nations in New York last September where they performed single ‘Permission To Dance’ after being named the UN’s Special Presidential Envoys for Future Generations and Culture. They also gave a speech at the assembly.Speaking at the event through a translator, RM said at the time: “It is an honour to be here today.
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