The White House has finally put out a “statement” of sorts in response to a vile video depicting a fake “Donald Trump” violently slaughtering the media and other top Trump targets, several top Democrats including Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republicans including  the late Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Mitt Romney, and Black Lives Matter.

The clip was played at an event for Trump supporters held at Trump’s Miami golf resort. Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reportedly were present at the event.

At 8:26 AM ET Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham posted a short tweet, almost as an offhand memo.

“Re: the video played over the weekend: The @POTUS @realDonaldTrump has not yet seen the video, he will see it shortly, but based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns this video.”

Trump, who repeatedly has called the press “enemy of the people,” had been tweeting up a storm overnight when the news broke, and again this morning.

Many were quick to respond to Grisham’s milquetoast remarks while some questioned the White House claim he had not seen it, asking if not, why not.

His son spoke at the event at which it was played, but yeah, I’m sure it never came up. https://t.co/stWtH53rwH

— Geraldine (@everywhereist) October 14, 2019

What has he ever done that would in any way indicate that this video, made by his supporters, would not please him?

— Joe Berkowitz (@JoeBerkowitz) October 14, 2019

I’ll give 3/1 he tweets it out within the next 4 hours https://t.co/xQ6DI0C7H1

— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) October 14, 2019

Why tell us now that he’s not seen it but will see it shortly (it’s a very short clip)? Why not wait until he’s seen it?

Unless he’s actually seen it, perhaps many times, loved it showing @ conference, as did Jr, who spoke there, but you want us to think he hasn’t ever seen it.

— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) October 14, 2019

Yes, but does he strenuously object? https://t.co/NJspOQRtpx pic.twitter.com/rRzjudN0Yy

— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) October 14, 2019

And when you say “strongly condemns”, what you mean is “thinks it’s hilarious”. https://t.co/sW4I3KeGDy

— Tomb Hauntingofhillhouseton (@TVHilton) October 14, 2019

I don’t believe a word you say.

— Lisa Riegel (@MaxBuick) October 14, 2019

Be honest for once in your career. This is exactly the kind of shit he loves. Like the CNN “wrestling” bit on steroid. Bet he laughed his ass off over this one. https://t.co/I7UL2mHnp3

— Nicole Sandler (@nicolesandler) October 14, 2019

Prediction: Trump’s “condemnation” of the video will be half-hearted and undercut by “both-sidesism” https://t.co/LSFfEl90oB

— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) October 14, 2019

I assume sarah sandwich saw it? She spoke at the conference?

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 14, 2019

We’re going to need Trump to condemn it himself. Not his Press Sec – who collects a taxpayer funded paycheck and has never held a single daily briefing – via Twitter. Your words and tweets mean nothing when you don’t have the respect to face the public and press directly.

— 🇺🇸 Danielle Ames 🇺🇸 (@DanielleAmes10) October 14, 2019

Oh cut the shit. There’s at least a 50/50 chance he will pin it by the end of the day.

— Fruman, Parnas & Michael, Esqs. (@Merv515) October 14, 2019

He has posted videos before of CNN being violently attacked. Nice try Stephanie.

— Survivingnsweatpants (@Mominsweats) October 14, 2019

20 minutes from now he’s gonna retweet it or at the very least make a positive reference to it. Just wait.

NOBODY believes that he wouldn’t be gleeful over this video when he’s shared cartoons of the “Trump train” hitting CNN and the like plenty of times. I mean, come on. https://t.co/Yp76qNeyAC

— 🎃Valloween🎃 (@trickycrayon) October 14, 2019

condemn? he INSPIRED it

— Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) October 14, 2019

Supporters at President Donald Trump’s Trump National Doral Miami showed a video depicting the president conducting a mass shooting. Instead of people’s heads, however, it was replaced with logos of media outlets like PBS, NPR and others.

In the past, the president has advocated violence against CNN or other media, but has stopped short of advocating a mass shooting.

“Several of Mr. Trump’s top surrogates — including his son Donald Trump Jr., his former spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis — were scheduled to speak at the three-day conference, which was held by a pro-Trump group, American Priority, at Trump National Doral Miami,” The New York Times reported Sunday. “Ms. Sanders and a person close Mr. Trump’s son said on Sunday that they did not see the video at the conference.”

The video even uses the Trump campaign logo, combined with a series of internet memes. The violent clip came from the film “Kingsman: The Secret Service” in a scene where an agent was being manipulated by a chip in his brain. He ultimately ended up killing everyone in the church.

A person in attendance sent clips of the video on their cell phone and sent it to the New York Times, but the video has been uploaded to YouTube.

“Content was submitted by third parties and was not associated with or endorsed by the conference in any official capacity,” said event organizer Alex Phillips. “American Priority rejects all political violence and aims to promote a healthy dialogue about the preservation of free speech. This matter is under review.”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that she was really only in attendance for a prayer breakfast.

“That video was not produced by the campaign, and we do not condone violence,” said Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh.

Read the full report from The Times and you can watch the video below:

President Donald Trump’s former top official responsible for defeating the Islamic State was outraged on Saturday by reports that Syrian Future Party co-Chair Hevrin Khalaf had been killed.

Brett McGurk, the former special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL blasted the killing as a war crime.

Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime. https://t.co/O5hEVQ28jt pic.twitter.com/dn6cl7VUZr

— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) October 12, 2019

Earlier in the day, McGurk had retweeted a statement that Trump was leaving the Kurds “to be slaughtered” by Turkey.

"You have given up on us. You are leaving us to be slaughtered," Gen. Mazloum told the Deputy Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, William Roebuck Thursday, according to an internal US government readout that has been obtained by CNN @barbarastarrcnn @cmoc_sdf

— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) October 12, 2019