--- title: Orlando Shooting: Read Donald Trump's Speech description: Donald Trump addressed the shooting at a gay club in Orlando in a prepared speech Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4367120/orlando-shooting-donald-trump-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-13T19:07:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:44:18.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Trump's Speech on the Orlando Shooting og:description: "This is a very dark moment in America’s history." og:url: https://time.com/4367120/orlando-shooting-donald-trump-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3603be2ed3a47d53/6988979b656a3f36a1bcbe67/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican U.S. presidential candidate Trump speaks at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, New Hampshire og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Trump's Speech on the Orlando Shooting twitter:description: "This is a very dark moment in America’s history." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3603be2ed3a47d53/6988979b656a3f36a1bcbe67/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech on the Orlando Shooting by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:44 PM UTCPublished: Jun 13, 2016 7:07 PM UTC  Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump deivers a speech at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, N.H., U.S., June 13, 2016. Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump deivers a speech at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, N.H., U.S., June 13, 2016.Brian Snyder—Reuters by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:44 PM UTCPublished: Jun 13, 2016 7:07 PM UTC Donald Trump addressed the shooting at a gay club in Orlando in a prepared speech Monday, calling for suspending immigration from countries with a history of terrorism. Here is a full transcript of his remarks, as given. --- > “” --- Orlando Shooting: Read Donald Trump's Speech ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4367120/orlando-shooting-donald-trump-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4367120/orlando-shooting-donald-trump-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on the Orlando Shooting","datePublished":"2016-06-13T19:07:55.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T12:44:18.000Z","description":"Donald Trump addressed the shooting at a gay club in Orlando in a prepared speech Monday.","url":"https://time.com/4367120/orlando-shooting-donald-trump-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election topic","Foreign Policy","Orlando Shooting"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3603be2ed3a47d53/6988979b656a3f36a1bcbe67/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3603be2ed3a47d53/6988979b656a3f36a1bcbe67/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican U.S. presidential candidate Trump speaks at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, New Hampshire","caption":"Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump deivers a speech at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder","creditText":"Brian Snyder—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4367120/orlando-shooting-donald-trump-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on the Orlando Shooting"}}]}] ```