Falsely claims doctors left operating rooms to greet him at shooting hospitals

On August 21, 2019, Trump told reporters that during his El Paso and Dayton hospital visits after the August mass shootings, "the doctors were coming out of the operating rooms" and "there were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor." Spokespeople for both University Medical Center of El Paso and Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton directly refuted the account, stating that physicians and staff at no time leave active operating rooms to greet anyone. The episode extended Trump's pattern of recasting the somber hospital visits as displays of adulation, repeating a claim that the treating hospitals themselves publicly declared untrue.

"Doctors were coming out of the operating rooms. There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor." Quote verified against source