PITTSBURGH (AP) – President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have placed white roses and stones from the White House on each of the 11 stars representing a victim of Saturday’s synagogue shooting.
The memorial is set up outside Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue – the site of the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history.
The name of each victim is written in black on a white-painted Jewish star. There also are red hearts on them.
The president and first lady also visited with victims of the attack at a hospital.
As the presidential motorcade rolled up to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, it passed several hundred protesters on the street and a sign that said, “It’s your fault.”
Some people in Pittsburgh have welcomed the presidential visit, while others have used it as an opportunity to criticize his partisan rhetoric, which they claim is leading to violence.
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