How Obama and Trump Responded to School Shootings
Mar 03 2018
In response to a suggestion from Franklin Leonard, the Washington Post recently published a video providing an hour-by-hour comparison of how President Obama and President Trump responded in the wake of school shootings. The video is a very compelling piece for comparing (and contrasting) the differences in these two presidents’ approaches.
The video did a great job juxtaposing Obama’s and Trump’s intraday activities and responses (comparing Obama’s first day of response to Trump’s, etc.), but I felt it was hard to compare the actual timing of each event. I decided to re-visualize this information into one single timeline to (hopefully) present a slightly different effect.
I used transcribed versions of the Washington Post’s chyrons for each event’s time and description. Some of the descriptions were slightly edited for clarity in this alternate format. Whenever an explicit time was not given (e.g., evening), I used an approximate time.