Aug. 28, 2025 . Alex Christy

Former White House Press Secretary-turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki attacked President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and others on Wednesday’s The Briefing for offering “little more to offer than thoughts and prayers” after the Minneapolis shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church that left two children dead during a school Mass that also saw 17 individuals wounded. According to Psaki, the problem isn’t that the shooter was transgender, or anti-Trump, or anti-Semitic, but guns, which also led her to paint a false picture of Minnesota’s gun laws and gun violence in the U.S. as a whole.

An emotionally distraught Psaki declared, “And I felt a mixture of anger and—a lot of anger— and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times, so many times, and yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers. That is all they are offering. ‘Join us all—’ ‘Join all of us in praying for the victims,’ was Vice President JD Vance's response today. That's what he said. That's it. “Please join me in praying for everyone involved,’ Trump wrote.”

Psaki continued:

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