President Trump revealed that school shootings are the most difficult days for him to be the leader of the country.
The president made the remarks in a Tuesday interview with CSPAN, just days after there was a mass shooting in Gilroy, California, at a garlic festival.
“What was your most difficult day, thus far?” C-SPAN’s Steve Scully asked the president.
“When you have a school shooting, it’s tremendously — it angers me actually. It really angers me,” Trump answered.
“It frustrates everybody. You say, ‘How could a thing like this happen? How is it possible?'” he continued. “When you see innocent children being killed, teachers, that’s something that you just never can really get over. And you say, ‘Is there something we can do? What can we do?’ Because there are so many different sides to it.”
The president discussed the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The gunman, whom the FBI had been alerted to months before, killed 17 students and teachers before being arrested.
Trump also pointed to how his administration responded to the shooting as a way to prevent future incidents. The administration held a meeting with survivors and the parents of victims while also issuing a report that argued against gun control.
“There were a lot of red flags with that shooter. I think they said there were 36 red flags with that shooter, and you’re pretty disappointed. You know what I mean by a red flag. There were warnings out there. This was not a boy scout, and people didn’t do what they should’ve done,” the president said about the Parkland shooter. “So those are events that really are very tough to take when you’re the president of a country.”
