Donald Trump has been slammed for comments he made in the aftermath of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Trump has attracted criticism after suggesting that he feels differently about the two killings.
Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed within days by ICE in Minneapolis
Renee Good, 37, was killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while she was in her car seemingly attempting to escape from an incident with the ICE agents on January 7.
Days later, on January 24, Alex Pretti - also 37 - was killed during an altercation with ICE agents on the street as he allegedly attempted to help a woman who had been knocked to the ground.
Multiple video perspectives have since emerged showing both incidents, and widespread protests have broken out across the city and the USA.
Donald Trump and his wife Melania have both issued statements in the aftermath, with Melania calling for unity and Trump making some more controversial statements.
However, none have been as controversial as the comments that he made overnight about the two incidents and his personal take on them.
President Donald Trump called ‘evil’ for his controversial remarks
Trump started out by saying that he feels ‘terrible’ after both deaths, but then went on to imply that he felt worse about the death of Renee Good - a mother to a six-year-old child - than he did about the killing of Pretti - an ICU nurse at a veterans’ hospital in Minneapolis.
His reasoning behind that relates to the political leanings of the victims’ families.
While Pretti’s parents released a statement shortly after his death condemning ‘sickening lies’ that they believed were being told about their son, Good’s parents are reportedly supporters of the President.
In a show on Fox News on Tuesday, Trump said: “I think the whole thing is terrible,
“I don’t like the fact that he [Pretti] was carrying a gun… It’s pretty unusual.
“But nobody knows when they saw the gun, how they saw the gun, everything else. Bottom line, it was terrible.”
He then added: “Both of them were terrible.
“The other was terrible too. And I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans.
“Makes me feel bad anyway. But I guess you could say even worse, they were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans.
“The daughter was, I don’t know if you could say radicalized. Maybe radicalized. I don’t know. But you hate to see that.”
His comments were widely criticized from certain observers, who argued that judging the two incidents based on those terms is wrong.
“Evil man,” one person commented.
Another wrote: “What an absolute disgraceful and disgusting thing to say!”
A third said: “Just to be clear this is the president talking about two people who were murdered in the street in an ongoing operation he ordered.
“Who talks like this about a dead person in relation to themselves?”