It’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ job to parse Trump’s statements and highlight any possible positives, brush away any negatives.  He’s a grown man who shouldn’t need any more help. 

When Trump says out loud that other presidents didn’t make calls, he’s generally saying they didn’t do as good a job of reaching out as he is now. The time limit for the “He’s not an experienced public official” excuse has long ago expired.

Btw, he’s WRONG about the others not calling. He frequently makes WRONG statements. Once or twice is to be human. Every other day is an ldiot. Would you disagree with that?

A classier statement would have been, “Sorry, I forgot to mention them in my speeches, but I’ll write letters and call the families, as my honorable predecessors all did.”

These events are all recorded. Why would you doubt the accounts, which will be easily checked and verified or disproved within hours?  Why do you believe any BS Trump says (hint, you can easily do a search on “fact check”).