Trump Appears to Connect Obama to Orlando Shooter: "He's Got Something Else in Mind" (UPDATE)

Donald Trump appears to connect U.S. President Barack Obama to the shooter behind the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub.

June 13, 2016

In an interview with Fox News' Fox and Friends, presumptive GOP nominee for president Donald Trump seemed to make a connection between the tragic shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando on early Sunday morning and president Barack Obama. These remarks follow a statement Trump released on Sunday asking for the president to resign for not calling the shooting an act of "Islamic terror."

"He either doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands, it's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable," Trump said after he was asked about his request for the president to step down. In the interview that lasted nearly 20 minutes, Trump also hinted at conspiracy by saying,

Trump also criticized the president for calling for gun law reform in the wake of the Orlando shooting, which is the most deadly in the history of the United States.

In a Today Show interview that followed his interview on Fox and Friends, Trump was asked to clarify his remarks about the president on Fox, where he told Savannah Guthrie,

The president definitively condemned the Orlando shooting on Sunday when he said,

Regardless of anyone's personal allegiance to either political figure, Trump's statements certainly seem to stand at odds with those of the president. Watch a video of Obama's full commentary on the shooting below.

UPDATE 5:00 p.m. ET:

Donald Trump denounced the Washington Post calling it "phony" and "dishonest" before announcing he was revoking its press credentials. Trump posted on Facebook: