West Wing Reads President Trump and First Lady Visit El Paso, Dayton Today

President Trump and First Lady visit El Paso, Dayton today  President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are visiting “El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday in the wake of two mass shootings in the cities last weekend,” Nikki Schwab reports for the New York Post. “Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday morning that the president planned to meet with a number of people impacted by the dual tragedies.” Click here to read more. “The Trump administration has implemented an unprecedented pressure campaign on Iran’s leaders with two objectives: First, to deprive the Iranian regime of the money it needs to support its destabilizing activities. Second, to force the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the negotiating table to conclude a comprehensive and enduring deal,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo writes in USA Today. “Iran’s proposed military budget for 2019 included a 28% cut to its defense budget and a 17% cut to its terror branch, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.” “For anyone who cares about the common good, this nation desperately needed to hear Trump say what he said Monday,” the Washington Examiner editorial board writes. Unfortunately, “partisan hackery can transcend any national tragedy . . . Shame on all of them, and on all of the others who want the nation to be upset and fragmented and divided by tragedy, just so that they can sooner get the political outcome they are hoping for.” “For the last three years, [the left has] said that attacks on the press are attacks on democracy itself. Yet, many wasted no time this week torching the New York Times for a headline they did not like. They pressured the newspaper into changing its coverage to better suit the Democratic perspective,” Becket Adams writes in the Washington Examiner. “The New York Times, of course, caved to peer pressure.” “Under President Trump, the U.S. is experiencing record-low unemployment and rising wages the previous administration repeatedly said wasn’t possible. As a result, small businesses are hiring at a record pace,” Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz writes for Fox News. “President Trump’s goal of energy dominance has played a big part in this economic expansion. Rather than restrict energy production, Trump policies are creating record production of oil and natural gas.”