President Donald Trump is responding to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

  • More than 50 dead, more than 500 injured in Las Vegas shooting
  • Gunman fired automatic weapons from hotel room at crowd at outdoor country music festival 
  • Shooter identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada

Trump says he will travel to Las Vegas on Wednesday.

He spoke Monday morning, hours after the shooting at a country music festival late Sunday killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 500. It is the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

Trump said the nation must stay unified. He said that although “feel such great anger at the senseless murder of our fellow citizens, it is our love that binds us today and always will.”

The president is calling the mass shooting attack in Las Vegas “an act of pure evil.”

Trump says the nation is joined together on Monday in sadness, shock and grief.

Trump tweeted his “warmest condolences and sympathies” earlier Monday morning.

Here are other comments and responses: 

STATEMENT From Barbara Poma, Owner Pulse Nightclub

“Finding words to convey the depth of horror we are all witnessing in Las Vegas is just impossible. It is unimaginable that another mass shooting of even greater scope than that of Pulse Nightclub could occur again in this country, but indeed, it has. We must work harder to stop these crimes that destroy human life. We pray for those whose lives were taken, as well as for the wounded and the hundreds who will forever be affected by this monumental tragedy.”