Orlando, a city located 450 miles south of Atlanta in a different state, is a popular Florida tourist destination and home to Mickey Mouse. It was also, on June 12 of last year, the site of the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history.
Forty-nine people were killed and even more injured when officials say Omar Mateen stormed Pulse, a popular gay dance club, on Latin night and opened fire.
It’s hard to imagine Spicer’s city mix-up was entirely a slip of the tongue, since he listed the mystery Atlanta terrorist attack three times, in three interviews. But even if it was a genuine mistake, using Orlando as a defense for Trump’s travel ban is an odd choice, too.
Mateen was a U.S. citizen, born in New York to Afghan parents. He, like the Boston Marathon bombers and San Bernardino shooters, self-radicalized in the United States and had no direct ties to any terrorist organizations, though they claimed to be inspired by them.
Afghanistan is not on Trump’s list of travel banned countries, nor is Pakistan, where Tashfeen Malik, one of the San Bernardino shooters, was born. Malik’s husband and co-attacker, Syed Farook, was an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent.
And the countries where the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon, were born aren’t on Trump’s ban list either.
What the perpetrators in all three attacks do have in common, though, is their faith.
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