US President Donald Trump has been widely criticised after accidentally saying Sunday’s mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio occurred in Toledo, Ohio.
During a speech to the nation, Mr Trump said blame lay in social media and the internet for two devastating massacres in Ohio and Texas over the weekend.
Mr Trump also paid tribute to the 29 victims who were killed and those who were injured, before making the blunder.
He said: “May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo, may God protect them.
“May God protect all those from Texas to Ohio. May God bless the victims and their families”
A CNN commentator, Keith Boykin, said: “The Trump White House is so incompetent and insensitive that they couldn’t even get the name of the city right.
“The mass shooting took place in Dayton, Ohio — not Toledo.”
Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter, wrote: "For the record, Toledo is like 150 miles from Dayton, Ohio.
"He appeared to be reading this from a Teleprompter. If no, it shows how hastily cobbled together this speech was."
The mistake came during a 10-minute speech from the President.
In it, he pledged to "defeat white supremacy" on the internet and vowed to "act with urgent resolve" after two separate gunmen stormed a bar in Dayton and a Walmart in El Paso.
Referring to the shooter in El Paso – who left 20 people dead – posting a manifesto online “consumed with racist hate”, Mr Trump said: “In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated.
“We must recognise the internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalise disturbed minds and perform demented acts. We must shine light on the dark recesses of the internet and stop mass murders before they start.”
The president went on: “The perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored and they will not be ignored. In the two decades since Columbine, our nation has watched with rising horror and dread as one man shooting has followed another, over and over again, decade after decade.
"We cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless."
