Trump Still Silent on Latest London Terror Attack

Where is President Trump’s response to the terrorist attack in London? Not the June 3 attack, when three Muslim men in a van drove over several pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing many more in a market. Eight were killed and nearly 50 injured, and it prompted a series of tweets from Trump that touted his Muslim travel ban and criticized London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan.

But Trump has not yet responded or even commented on the possibly related attack in the early hours of Monday, June 19. An apparent lone wolf terrorist from Wales drove a car into several people as they left the mosque in London’s Finsbury Park neighborhood, with at least 1 dead and 10 or more wounded.

President Trump has not made any kind of public statement on the attack. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, simply told reporters Monday that the president has been “made aware” of the incident and “is receiving consistent updates from the staff.” Spicer also expressed that “thoughts and prayers” extend to the victims and their families.

Several other top Trump administration officials expressed their sympathy for the victims of the attack. “Briefed on the hateful and senseless violence in London and Paris,” Vice President Mike Pence tweeted on Monday afternoon, also referencing a Monday terrorist attack in France in which only the driver of a weaponized truck died. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted & their loved ones.”

“Sending love and prayers to the victims in #FinsburyPark London,” tweeted Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a White House aide. “We must stand united against hatred and extremism in all it’s [sic] ugly forms.”