The Baggage Trump Brought to Dayton
The city is hovering between grief and recovery. The president didn’t unite it.
DAYTON, Ohio—Fifteen minutes after Air Force One touched down here this morning, a fight nearly broke out on the same city block where a gunman shot and killed nine people on Sunday. A middle-aged white man waving a large blue Trump 2020 flag traded angry insults with a cluster of people chanting, “Vote him out!”
“We don’t want you here!” one woman shouted.
“God bless Trump!” he proclaimed.
“If you support Trump, you’re a racist!” someone else yelled.
“You’re an idiot!” the Trump supporter snapped back.
The confrontation unfolded in front of Ned Peppers Bar, where the 24-year-old gunman was shot by police before he could enter and possibly kill dozens more people who had rushed inside to escape his gunfire. In
