President Donald Trump denounced the Manchester terror attack as a "horrible thing" carried out by "evil losers" early Tuesday, May 23. "I won't call them monsters because they would like that term, they would think that is a great name. I will call them, from now on, losers, because that's what they are: losers," he said while speaking to the press, following a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem.
It was one of several statements the President issued on the Manchester Arena blast, that claimed 22 lives and injured 59 after an Ariana Grande concert. He would later join with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where he highlighted that some of the victims of the attack were children, and put a call out for nations to unite in an effort to "obliterate this evil ideology and protect and defend our citizens and people of the world." He would also take to Twitter with words of solidarity for the people of the U.K.
Monday's attack follows a weekend in which Trump traveled the Middle East, with a stop in Saudi Arabia, where he asserted that the majority of victims of terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims are themselves Muslims. From Jerusalem he reiterated the plea he made at the Arab Islamic American Summit, for nations to join in eradicating extremism, stating, "This trip is focused on that goal, bringing nations together around the goal of defeating the terrorism that threatens the world and crushing the hateful ideology that drives it so hard and seems to be driving it so fast."
Source: twitter.com
