President Trump appeared surprised that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise’s wife was emotional at the hospital after her husband was shot in the hip at a congressional baseball practice, quipping that his own wife would not cry if it happened to him.
Trump recalled during a Republican fundraiser Wednesday having met Jennifer Scalise at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where the Louisiana Republican was recovering from surgery in June 2017.
Scalise’s wife “cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day … I mean not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn’t,” Trump said, according to Politico.
First lady Melania Trump accompanied her husband to the hospital, bringing a bouquet of flowers.
Trump also mentioned Scalise’s weight loss, joking that he wouldn’t recommend getting shot as a weight loss plan. Trump previously teased Scalise about his physical transformation at a White House event celebrating the passage of the Republican tax bill.
“He had a rougher year than most of us. But it’s a hell of a way to lose weight, Steve. Not a good way,” Trump said in December 2017.
