Trump wanted gamers to support him. Now he's blaming them for gun massacres Van Badham

Scientific studies do not find any links between video games and gun violence. The claim that they do has been repeatedly tested, studied and debunked. Yet on Monday, US president Donald Trump insisted that "gruesome and grisly video games" were causative in the gun massacre deaths of 22 people in El Paso and another 9 in Dayton (not Toledo) Ohio. Why scapegoat video games and demonise the people who play them? It's established that science, expertise, evidence and the truth are not dominant themes of the Trump presidency, and with increasing numbers of people bleeding to death in US streets, he has to find someone – something – anything!