Donald Trump criticised for 'playing golf' while Florida shooting victims funerals took place nearby

Donald Trump reportedly played golf as victims of the Florida school shooting were laid to rest at funerals just 45 miles away.

The President arrived at his Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach on Monday morning.

Less than an hour’s drive away, grieving friends and relatives filed into services for 14-year-old Alaina Petty and 15-year-old Luke Hoyer.

Mr Trump has previously met some of the victims of the massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff were killed.

He avoided the golf course over the weekend which he spent at his Mar-a-Lago resort, in a decision aides said was a mark of respect for the dead.

But he is known to enjoy the sport to relax.

Officials did not say if Mr Trump had played golf on Monday, but he was pictured wearing a white polo shirt and matching cap as he apparently returned to the course.

Mr Trump's critics noted the President did not mention the teenagers’ funerals, despite finding time to launch Twitter attacks on Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.

“The president tweeted and played golf today, a day that saw two families bury their children,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper told viewers. “For anyone still waiting for the president to pivot, that’s a pivot away from the murder of 17 people to himself.”


Source: Yahoo News