COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – President Donald Trump has toured a neighborhood in Tennessee reduced to rubble by a tornado earlier this week and marveled at “the tremendous heart” he witnessed.
He also offered a message for survivors and those who lost family members, saying: “We love them, they’re special people.”
Trump assumed the role of national consoler as he traveled Friday to Tennessee.
Trump is touring hard hit communities in Putnam County, where a tornado tore a 2-mile-long path, killing 18 people, including five children under 13. Many more people were injured, some critically.
