Donald Trump Criticizes Obama Over Chattanooga Shooting, Says Americans Need to be Less 'Politically Correct'
Real estate mogul and 2016 presidential hopeful Donald Trump recently called out U.S. President Barack Obama for not connecting the recent Marine shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Islamic extremism.
Trump, who recently announced his plans to run for president in 2016, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly this week that he believes the U.S. should stop trying to be so politically correct.
It's going to get worse in our country and we better start fighting a lot tougher than we're fighting right now," Trump told O'Reilly. "If we're going to fight elements that are causing tremendous problems [...] at least we have to start maybe being not so politically correct."
Trump's statement referenced the Thursday shooting at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 24-year-old Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire, killing four Marines.
Some have argued that there may be a possible connection between Abdulazeez, a Kuwait-born naturalized citizen, and the lone wolf attacks being carried out by terrorist sympathizers in the United States.
The FBI and U.S. President Barack Obama have indicated that an investigation into the shooting will be carried out, but have not gone as far to suggest domestic terrorism yet.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Edward W. Reinhold told reporters Thursday that while the FBI will explore the possibility of an Islamic State connection, "at this point, we don't have anything that directly ties him to an international terrorist organization."
"We have no idea at this point what his motivation was behind the shooting," Reinhold added.
