Trump on Obama's police shooting response: 'Look at the body language. There's something going on'

When it comes to violence against law enforcement, Donald Trump says there is “something going on” with President Barack Obama’s response.

The president was forced to address the country again Sunday in the wake of the shooting deaths of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Those deaths came less than a week after Obama spoke at a memorial service in Dallas, where a gunman killed five police officers and injured nine more in a rampage that followed a rally organized to protest the shooting deaths of two black men by police.


In an interview Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” Trump seemed to imply that the president had sided with those attacking police officers, despite Obama’s words to the contrary.

“I mean, you know, I watched the president and sometimes the words are okay,” Trump said. “But you just look at the body language. There's something going on. Look, there’s something going on and the words are not often okay, by the way.”

“What does that mean, there’s something going on?” host Steve Doocy replied.

“There's just a bad feeling, a lot of bad feeling about him,” Trump said. “I see it too. There's a lot of bad feeling about him. We have a country that has not been like this since I can remember it.”

Trump seemed to echo remarks from conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, who made a similar point, albeit more directly, in an earlier interview on “Fox and Friends.”

“The president, the attorney general of the United States, the Democratic presumptive nominee for president have all three endorsed black lives matter. So they're taking a really clear stand for this group, against the police,” Carlson said. “Not just a specific police department or a specific cop, but all police, accusing all police of racism. Now, I'm not blaming the president or any of those people for this shooting. But clearly, they've taken a side and it's not the side of law enforcement.”

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who will speak at the Republican National Convention later in the week, said Trump's comments reflect popular public sentiment calling on the White House to show greater solidarity for law enforcement.

"I think what people want to see from the president, they're waiting to see, is for him to say, 'Look, I am standing with our police. I'm supporting the police, I'm supporting our local elected officials, and we have to get this under control,'" Blackburn told CNN inside Quicken Loans Arena, as a band played during the convention's opening proceedings.

Blackburn remarked that she did not hear the clip of Trump "very well," but added, "what people want is leadership on this issue."

"Tell us, Mr. President, what you're going to do, how you're going to support our local police," Blackburn said. "Tell us that you're going to stand with them, and let's get this stopped."