WASHINGTON _ The two public personas of Donald Trump were on full display Friday morning, illustrated by a pair of tweets posted just a dozen minutes apart.
In the first social media post, the president flashed the somber side he has in the midst of some national tragedies and disasters since he took office. Trump suggested he will be meeting with family members of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre and others there over the long Presidents' Day weekend.
"I will be leaving for Florida today to meet with some of the bravest people on earth _ but people whose lives have been totally shattered," Trump wrote with no additional context.
Trump is slated to leave the White House this afternoon en route to his South Florida resort, which is about 40 miles from Parkland. The public schedule the White House released Thursday evening, however, did not list a Parkland visit; White House officials around 10 a.m. indicated an update on the president's travel plans would be announced soon.
Exactly 12 minutes later, Trump's streetfighter persona was back.
The around 690,000 undocumented individuals protected by the DACA program have been "totally abandoned" by congressional Democrats, he tweeted, adding he "Cannot believe how BADLY DACA recipients have been treated by the Democrats."
Republicans, on the other hand, "are still working hard" to legalize that program and keep them safe from possible deportation, the GOP president added.
A Senate immigration measure backed by the White House that would have addressed the DACA program got the fewest number of vote (39) out of four that received procedural floor votes on Thursday.
