#President Trump visits Kenosha amid civil unrest after Jacob Blake shooting

President Trump toured riot-ravaged Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, days after the city was first wracked by the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake and then by a resulting wave of fiery unrest that included a teen vigilante allegedly gunning down two protesters.

Trump visited stretches of the lakefront city badly damaged during the demonstrations, vowing aid for business owners and thanking law enforcement for their work during the protests.

“We’re going to help them, we’re going to help them a lot,” Trump said of business owners, while visiting a torched storefront. “We’ll help you rebuild.”

Added Trump as he gestured to local law-enforcement officers, “These gentlemen did a fantastic job.”

Trump then headed to Mary D. Bradford High School, where he will tour an emergency operations center, then participate in a roundtable discussion on public safety.

All told, the visit — which Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers discouraged for fear it would “only hinder our healing” — is scheduled to last about two hours.

Kenosha, home to about 100,000 Wisconsinites, was rocked last month by the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake.

The 29-year-old was trying to break up a fight between two women, according to witnesses, when police intervened.

As Blake tried to get in his car, he was shot seven times in the back by police as his fiancée and children looked on.

A union for Kenosha cops has claimed that Blake was holding a knife at the time, contradicting the state attorney general’s account that the blade was in Blake’s car.

Blake survived, but was left paralyzed.

Trump had initially expressed interest in meeting with Blake’s family, but the plan was scrapped because they wanted to have a lawyer present, according to the president.

The shooting touched off a fresh wave of anti-police unrest, ripping off the scab of George Floyd’s Memorial Day death in neighboring Minnesota.

Amid the tensions in Kenosha, 17-year-old vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly used an AR-15 to kill two Black Lives Matter protesters and wound a third.

Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Ill., has been hit with charges including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide.

Rittenhouse’s lawyer has claimed that his client was acting in self-defense.