President Donald Trump walks to his vehicle after arriving at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Houston. Associated Press/Evan Vucci
- President Donald Trump met privately on Thursday with families of the victims of the Santa Fe high-school shooting.
- Some of the family members thanked Trump for his time, and said he showed "sincerity, compassion, and concern" about school safety.
- But one mother said that Trump kept talking about his idea to arm teachers. "It was like talking to a toddler," she said.
HOUSTON (AP) — Seeking to comfort grieving families and shaken survivors, President Donald Trump spent more than an hour privately Thursday with some of those impacted by a Texas mass school shooting that killed 10 and wounded more than a dozen on May 18.
The latest spasm of violence in a year marred by assaults on the nation's schools, the shooting at Santa Fe High School was the latest to test the president's role as national comforter-in-chief. Trump met with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting, and did not publicly share his message for the grieving families and local leaders during a meeting at a Coast Guard base outside Houston.
Pamela Stanich — whose 17-year-old son, Jared Black, was among the eight students killed — was one of the parents who met with Trump, presenting him with a family statement and a copy of her son's eulogy.
Trump "met with us privately and showed sincerity, compassion, and
