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On 27 May 2016, President Obama became the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan since the end of World War II. While some media outlets painted the historic visit as another stop on Obama's apology tour, the president did not actually apologize. Still, social media users were outraged at the President's supposed apology: On 26 May 2016, the New York Post published an article criticizing the president for his shameful apology tour. While the author assumed that Obama would apologize (despite the White House saying that an apology would not be forthcoming), the article came out a day before Obama's speech and therefore did not serve as evidence: The president did make an apology while he was in Japan, but it wasn't for the atomic bomb. On 25 May 2016, the President offered his deepest regrets for the death of a Japanese woman who reportedly had been murdered by a former U.S. Marine: While critics of President Obama preemptively condemned him for apologizing for the United States' 1945 actions (which collectively killed more than 100,000 people), and while the President did apologize for an unrelated incident, he did not actually offer an apology during his speech. Obama did offer condolences for the loss of those who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but nowhere in the full text of his remarks did he offer an apology:
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