President Trump traveled to Pittsburgh to honor victims of the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. But on Wednesday, the president was focused more on how he was treated there, criticizing protesters and seeming to denigrate local leaders who had urged him to stay away.<doc-sep>WASHINGTON – In the wake of a bomb plot and a mass killing at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, President Donald Trump has again blamed the media for anger that has turned deadly – something his critics say only stokes division. "There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news," Trump tweeted Monday morning. Again referring to the "Fake News Media" as the "true Enemy of the People," Trump said journalists "must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame." Later Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders argued that "the very first thing the media did" after the shooting was "blame the president." She refused to specifically name outlets that Trump believed were fake. Hours later on Twitter, Trump singled out CNN as being in the "Fake News Business" and added that there was a "very big difference" between legitimate and false news outlets. "CNN and others in the Fake News Business keep purposely and inaccurately reporting that I said the “Media is the Enemy of the People.” Wrong!," Trump tweeted. "I said that the “Fake News (Media) is the Enemy of the People,” a very big difference. When you give out false information - not good!" In a second tweet, Trump wrote, "Check out tweets from last two days. I refer to Fake News Media when mentioning Enemy of the People - but dishonest reporters use only the word “Media.” The people of our Great Country are angry and disillusioned at receiving so much Fake News. They get it, and fully understand!" More:4 Pittsburgh police officers recovering after terror at synagogue The Florida man suspected of sending a series of suspicious packages through the mail addressed two envelopes with bomb-like devices to CNN. Critics of the president have said it is the president's aggressive rhetoric – which often attacks his political opponents, the media and the like – that creates division and can lead unbalanced people to contemplate violence. Chuck Todd of NBC News tweeted in response: "If you actually believe media is the problem then the last thing one should do is respond with your own hate and anger ... Try leading; try setting an example." Trump sets a tone "of division, often one of hatred, sometimes one of incitement of violence against journalists, and there is no escaping our responsibility," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." Last week, authorities arrested a Trump supporter for allegedly mailing pipe bombs to political opponents, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 Trump election opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump has condemned both the bombing plot and the synagogue shooting. Last week, in the wake of the bomb threats, he seemed to attempt a more somber tone and refrained from calling the media "fake." But even then, he still laid some of the blame for the politically charged atmosphere on the media. Following the Pittsburgh shooting, in which a gunman killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue, Trump again lashed out at the media Sunday night. He again tweeted about "fake news," saying it was "doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!" Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, called Trump's reactions "utterly predictable." "Nothing distracts President Trump from his political message," Zelizer said. "He has a series of opponents, with the media right up top, and crises, scandals, and turmoil does not distract him from returning to these themes. He is refusing to let the events of the past week control the agenda, and he is finding a way to fit the pipe bombs, the shooting and more into his familiar narrative of his being unfairly attacked by the media." CNN's Jim Acosta, a frequent target of Trump's attacks, laid it out simply Monday, following Trump's latest tweet. "We are not the enemy of the people," he wrote on Twitter. "I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. It is wrong to call your fellow Americans the enemy. We are all on the same team. We are all Americans." More:White House denies that Trump's rhetoric to blame for suspicious packages, 'anger' in society<doc-sep>Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh. The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad & solemn day. We were treated so warmly. Small protest was not seen by us, staged far away. The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful! pic.twitter.com/9B9HgCF1G9 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018 Incensed with the media coverage of his trip to Pittsburgh, PA to pay his respects to the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting tragedy inside an area synagogue, President Donald Trump is trying to fight off the narrative that protests figured prominently in his visit. Wednesday morning on Twitter, Trump posted a 55-second video capturing his trip. With a somber musical selection playing in the background, the president and First Lady Melania Trump are seen placing flowers at the memorial set up for the victims. No footage of any protesters is included in the Trump clip. The president claims there wasn’t all that much to the protests. Trump made sure to take a shot at the media in his tweet: “Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh,” Trump said. “The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad & solemn day. We were treated so warmly. Small protest was not seen by us, staged far away. The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful!” Already, there is a great deal of backlash to the president’s tweet. We’ll be posting momentarily about the widespread criticism Trump is receiving for — in the opinion of many on social media — again politicizing a tragedy. Watch above, via Twitter. [featured image via screengrab] Have a tip we should know? [email protected]<doc-sep>President Donald Trump's statement denouncing anti-Semitism after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday reportedly came at the behest of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who are Jewish. "It took the importuning of his Jewish daughter and son-in-law to craft a powerful statement of outrage at anti-Semitism after Saturday's slaughter at a Pittsburgh synagogue," The New York Times reported on Sunday. The president late afternoon Saturday, hours after the morning shooting that killed 11 worshippers, tweeted: "All of America is in mourning over the mass murder of Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We pray for those who perished and their loved ones, and our hearts go out to the brave police officers who sustained serious injuries..." In a following tweet, the president wrote, "This evil Anti-Semitic attack is an assault on humanity. It will take all of us working together to extract the poison of Anti-Semitism from our world. We must unite to conquer hate." ...This evil Anti-Semitic attack is an assault on humanity. It will take all of us working together to extract the poison of Anti-Semitism from our world. We must unite to conquer hate. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2018 By late night Saturday, however, the president began weighing in on the World Series game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, tweeting it was "amazing" how a manager took out the Dodgers' dominating pitcher and replaced him with "nervous reliever(s)." He also held a campaign rally where he continued his familiar attacks on his opponents, some of whom had been targeted by mail bombs in the previous days. The president made plans to visit Pittsburgh this week also at the urging of his daughter and son-in-law, who serve as senior White House advisers, according to The Times. Two years ago, Kushner pushed back against an accusation that his then-Republican presidential nominee father-in-law was an anti-Semite due to a tweet he posted of a meme of Hillary Clinton with a Star of David and hundred dollar bills. "Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he's not a racist," Kushner wrote in an op-ed in the New York Observer, which he purchased and transferred the assets for to a family trust after entering the White House. "Despite the best efforts of his political opponents and a large swath of the media to hold Donald Trump accountable for the utterances of even the most fringe of his supporters—a standard to which no other candidate is ever held—the worst that his detractors can fairly say about him is that he has been careless in retweeting imagery that can be interpreted as offensive," Kushner wrote. Based on his controversial move recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Donald Trump has been hailed as a great supporter of Israel. Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism after becoming involved with Kushner and married him in 2009. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a press briefing Monday reiterated that the president has Jewish grandchildren, that Ivanka Trump is Jewish and that Kushner is the descendant of Holocaust survivors. This story has been updated with more information on Ivanka Trump and Kushner.<doc-sep>
President Trump Donald TrumpTrump lashes out after grand jury seated for New York criminal probe Schumer tees up vote on Jan. 6 commission bill Senators struggle to save Jan. 6 commission MORE on Wednesday said he was "treated so warmly" in Pittsburgh and aired his grievances against media coverage of his visit to the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. In a morning tweet, Trump dismissed "Fake News" stories about protests against his visit to the Tree of Life Synagogue, where 11 people were killed Saturday, and insisted he was "shown great respect." ADVERTISEMENT "Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh. The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad and solemn day. We were treaty so warmly," he wrote. The tweet included a video, set to music, of Trump viewing memorials outside the synagogue and greeting wounded law-enforcement officers. Hundreds of people marched in solemn protest around the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, many carrying signs condemning Trump's incendiary rhetoric. But the president described the protests as "small" and said they were "not seen by us, staged far away." "The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful!" Trump tweeted. Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh. The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad & solemn day. We were treated so warmly. Small protest was not seen by us, staged far away. The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful! pic.twitter.com/9B9HgCF1G9 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018 The New York Times, which Trump regularly reads, used the headline "Trump’s Visit to Pittsburgh Divides a City Mourning Victims of Hate" on its lead story about the trip. The president's first public comments on the visit made no mention of the victims, who were still being buried on Wednesday, and instead were focused on his personal treatment during a visit intended to give comfort to a community in grief. The remarks inflamed the controversy surrounding Trump's decision to visit Pittsburgh, which came amid a debate on how much the president's comments have given cover to white nationalists and other extremist groups. Critics have questioned the president's sincerity when responding to national crises, and some Pittsburgh leaders asked Trump to hold off on visiting until the funerals for victims were over. But other leaders said Trump was welcome and the president was reportedly wary of being criticized for waiting too long to visit. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump "was very moved" by his time in Pittsburgh, saying he called it "very humbling and very sad." Asked why Trump did not make comments during the visit, Sanders said, "He wanted today to be about showing respect for the families and the friends of the victims, as well as for Jewish Americans." Updated at 10:10 a.m.