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The U.S President Donald Trump made a controversial visit to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His visit took place just days after a gunman entered a worship house of Jews and murdered 11 people. The president met with hundreds of protestors. His trip to Pittsburgh comes as the community mourned their lost loved ones.

The Saturday attack has sparked a national debate around the president’s rhetoric. The Jewish leaders have suggested that the U.S President hasn’t been strong enough in denouncing anti-semitism as president in the White House and the United States. One of the mourning families has declined an invitation to meet with the president. The mayor of the city has asked that Trump not come to the city.

Trump and his allies have pushed back on the notion that he in any way fosters an environment that is sympathetic or allowing of hate based upon religion and race. The president has been criticized following the shooting incident took place in Pittsburgh. He regularly employs during his campaign rallies and in his official capacity as president for the rhetoric.

His critics charge that Trump has adopted a hostile environment for people of color, and of Jewish people in the United States. They said that his rhetoric has allowed anti-semitic sentiments to bloom during his presidency. The U.S President Trump and his supporters have pushed back on those accusations. They said that the president doesn’t support any kind of violence against minority groups in the United States.