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Posted: 2019-08-08T02:41:09Z | Updated: 2019-08-08T13:23:14Z

Days after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, the citys Democratic mayor, Nan Whaley, called President Donald Trump a bully and a coward after he came after her and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) for supposedly misrepresenting his visit to shooting victims in a hospital.

In an interview on CNN late Wednesday, Whaley was asked her response to the president reportedly calling her and Brown very dishonest people after his visit.

Ive watched President Trumps Twitter feed for a while. Hes a bully and a coward, the mayor said. And its fine that he wants to bully me and Sen. Brown. Were OK. We can take it. But the citizens of Dayton deserve action.

Over the weekend, two horrific mass shootings occurred within 24 hours in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton. In Dayton, the shooter left nine people dead and injured over two dozen others.

Trump tweeted earlier Wednesday that Whaley and Brown were totally misrepresenting his hospital visit at a news conference they gave.

At that news conference, however, Whaley had said the victims and first responders were grateful for Trumps visit. She also called the presidents past rhetoric divisive.

At a stop in El Paso the same day, Trump also told reporters that Whaley and Brown were very dishonest and said: I get on Air Force One where they do have a lot of televisions. I turn on the television and there they are saying, Well, I dont know if it was appropriate for the president to be here.

Whaley told CNN later she really [didnt] understand... at all Trumps comments on her and Brown.

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Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley calls President Trump "a bully and a coward" after he called her and Sen. Sherrod Brown "very dishonest people" over their characterization of his visit to a Dayton hospital. https://t.co/Ci7eAtJWRS pic.twitter.com/Eta60Q3NH7

Anderson Cooper 360 (@AC360) August 8, 2019

Whaley told the Cincinnati Enquirer earlier Wednesday of Trumps tweets: Im confused. We said he was treated very well. I dont know what hes talking about misrepresenting. Oh well. He lives in his world of Twitter.

Earlier this week, the Dayton mayor had called out Trump for mistakenly naming the location of the mass shooting as Toledo in his Monday speech. And Tuesday, the day before Trumps visit, she told reporters she planned to tell the president how unhelpful hes been on guns.

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In her CNN interview Wednesday, the mayor called for common-sense gun legislation, mentioning an assault weapon ban. The weapon in Dayton used by the shooter, who was killed at the scene, was described by law enforcement as AR-15 like.