World leaders call for unity after London attack. Trump tweets the complete opposite: WP

Most world leaders who said anything in the early confusion of Saturday’s attack were circumspect and sympathetic. And then there was President Trump.

In the early confusion of Saturday’s attack in London, as police urged people not to spread rumors, those world leaders who did speak out early were largely circumspect. Restrained. Sympathetic.

“My thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter. “Awful news,” wrote Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau the same evening, adding, “We’re monitoring the situation.”

And then there was President Trump.

Before London police or anyone else had announced that the attack was linked to terrorism — the president of the United States retweeted an unsourced blurb from Drudge.com: “Fears of new terror attack after van ‘mows down 20 people’ on London Bridge.”

London authorities at that point had confirmed only a few details. Shortly after the Drudge tweet, British police again warned against spreading unconfirmed information.

Fifteen minutes later, Trump issued his second tweet since the attack — promoting his administration’s legally embattled “travel ban,” which hinders people from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

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