CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta found himself largely on the sidelines during his network’s Friday afternoon coverage of the horrifying high school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. But when he was given a chance to swoop in, he lamented the lack of support from President Trump for “any kind of substantial gun-control measures.”

Of course, Acosta failed to provide any evidence for how passing gun confiscation or control measures would put an end to school shootings like those in Texas and Parkland, FL.

Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer tossed to Acosta for the President’s reaction to the massacre and he noted that Trump is “[f]acing yet another mass shooting on his watch.”

After a soundbite from the President’s remarks at a previously scheduled prison reform event, Acosta fretted that “it’s unclear what the President will do in response to the school shooting in Texas” because “Mr. Trump has backed away from any kind of substantial gun-control measures, despite initially sounding supportive of those kind of laws in the days after the massacre in Parkland, Florida, back in February.”

Acosta cited the National Rifle Association (NRA) as having changed President’s mind and quoted part of his remarks to the NRA Annual Meeting on May 4. The CNN correspondent then concluded with some of his trademark snark:

So it sounds like if you go off of what the President has been saying, that he's not really in the mood for any kind of new gun control measures. We should also point out, Wolf, the flag has been lowered to staff — half staff over here at the White House. Wolf, lots of expression and thoughts and prayers from politicians across Washington. But, Wolf, unfortunately, after too many of these school shootings, these massacres across the country, no solutions coming out of Washington to solve this problem.

Since news of the shooting broke, CNN was lambasted for its dubious claim that there have been 22 school shootings so far in 2018, even though only four fit a common definition of a mass shooting (in which four or more people are injured or killed).

While some like Sara Murray and the Twitter account of CNN PR lashed out at those raising serious questions, Acosta showed that CNN will plow ahead with their on-air lobbying efforts fo anti-gun measures.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s The Situation Room on May 18, click “expand.”