--- title: Orlando Shooting: Read President Obama's Speech in Orlando description: President Barack Obama traveled to Orlando to pay his respects to the victims of a deadly nightclub shooting that claimed 49 lives. canonical: https://time.com/4372521/orlando-shooting-barack-obama-speech/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-16T21:55:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:40:18.971Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read President Obama's Speech Memorializing Shooting Victims in Orlando og:description: This was the president's 10th visit to the scene of a mass shooting og:url: https://time.com/4372521/orlando-shooting-barack-obama-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt537be63f58c0055b/698898422dce0106ef9e981e/obama-biden-orlando-memorial-visit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden pause as they place flowers at a makeshift memorial for shooting victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read President Obama's Speech Memorializing Shooting Victims in Orlando twitter:description: This was the president's 10th visit to the scene of a mass shooting twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt537be63f58c0055b/698898422dce0106ef9e981e/obama-biden-orlando-memorial-visit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read President Obama's Speech Memorializing Shooting Victims in Orlando > Sponsored content. 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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pause as they place flowers at a makeshift memorial for shooting victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 16, 2016. Carlos Barria—Reuters by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 16, 2016 9:55 PM UTC President Barack Obama [traveled to Orlando on Thursday](http://time.com/4372190/orlando-shooting-barack-obama-joe-biden-grief) to pay his respects to the victims of a deadly nightclub shooting that claimed 49 lives. This was the president’s 10th visit to the scene of a mass shooting and Obama’s remarks mirrored that fact. “Today, once again, as has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving family members and friends and they asked why does this keep happening. They pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage,” Obama said Thursday. “They don’t care about the politics. Neither do I. Niether does \[Vice President\] Joe \[Biden\].” Read the rest of President Obama’s remarks in Orlando below: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4372521/orlando-shooting-barack-obama-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4372521/orlando-shooting-barack-obama-speech/"},"headline":"Read President Obama's Speech Memorializing Shooting Victims in Orlando","datePublished":"2016-06-16T21:55:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:40:18.971Z","description":"This was the president's 10th visit to the scene of a mass shooting—and it showed","url":"https://time.com/4372521/orlando-shooting-barack-obama-speech/","keywords":["Orlando Shooting","White House","President Barack Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt537be63f58c0055b/698898422dce0106ef9e981e/obama-biden-orlando-memorial-visit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt537be63f58c0055b/698898422dce0106ef9e981e/obama-biden-orlando-memorial-visit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden pause as they place flowers at a makeshift memorial for shooting victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S.","caption":"U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden pause as they place flowers at a makeshift memorial for shooting victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 16, 2016. 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