President Trump toured the violence-ravaged Kenosha, Wisconsin Tuesday and called rioters ‘domestic terrorists’ while praising police, who he argued shouldn’t be demonized for ‘choking.’

Trump didn’t mention Jacob Blake by name during his scripted remarks.

Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white cop in front of his three young children Sunday afternoon, leaving the father-of-six paralyzed from the waist down.

The incident sparked several nights of protests and then violence in the Wisconsin city.

The trip comes as Trump seeks to frame his race against Democrat Joe Biden around law enforcement issues.

Yesterday, Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), released a 15-minute video of a “socially distanced conversation” between the two of them in which they portray Trump as uncaring and incapable of managing the coronavirus crisis.

Trump arrived this afternoon and walked through the rubble that had once been a camera stores and an office furniture shop, before giving remarks at a roundtalbe on ‘Wisconsin Community Safety.’

‘These are not peaceful protests but domestic terror,’ Trump said, seated alongside Attorney General Bill Barr, acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and local officials including Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth.

Beth has been scrutinized in the wake of police shooting Blake for statements he’s made about black people in the past.

‘The vast and overwhelming majority of police officers are honorable, courageous and devoted public servants,’ Trump said. ‘They’re incredible, yet many politicians ignore their sacrifice and ignore the African-American, Hispanic-American victims,’ the president continued, speaking of crime victims of color, not those who have been unarmed and shot by officers, which have inspired weeks of Black Lives Matter protests.

When asked specifically about Blake being shot Trump responded, ‘I feel terrible for anybody who goes through that.’ He added that it’s a ‘complicated subject.’

Trump pooh-poohed a reporter’s question about whether he believed systemic racism existed, which has been the main theme of the Black Lives Matter movement.

‘You just keep getting back to the opposite subject,’ Trump said. ‘We should talk about the kind of violence we’ve seen in Portland and here and other places, it’s tremendous violence.’

‘This is what this is all about,’ Trump said.

He laughed off the idea that most of the Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceable, pointing to the rubble he had just observed.

State and local officials had asked Trump not come to Kenosha, in case his appearance sparked more confrontations – but Wisconsin is a key swing state in the November presidential election.

Since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, Trump has made clear he stands with law enforcement and his  trip to Kenosha reinforced that.

During the drive between the Illinois airport Air Force One touched down at and the Wisconsin city, Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter activists lined the road.

A large group of protesters had also staked out an area close to the property Trump was touring and greeted the president with middle fingers.

‘There was love on the streets, I can tell you,’ Trump later said. ‘When we were coming in, it was love in the streets.’

The father of Blake said before the president’s arrival that he would not meet with Trump because ‘I don’t want to play politics.’

Jacob Blake Sr spoke out after the president declined to meet with the Blake family if lawyers were involved, which Trump labeled ‘inappropriate.’

Asked about Trump’s response, Blake Sr said: ‘I’m not getting into politics. It’s all about my son, man. It has nothing to do with a photo-op.’

Kenosha remains under a 7 p.m. curfew with more than 1,500 National Guard members on the scene.

But Blake’s shooting and the demonstrations prompted self-styled militia men to take to the streets with their own weapons because they don’t trust the police to keep the city safe.

Among those vigilantes on Tuesday night was 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager who’d come from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to patrol the streets with an AR-15. It is illegal for someone under 18 to openly carry a weapon in Wisconsin.

Rittenhouse was part of a group of armed civilians protecting a service station in Kenosha.

There was a scuffle between them and the protesters. Shots were fired and 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum falls to the ground with a gunshot wound to the head that would be fatal.

Video posted on social media shows a man whom police believe to be Rittenhouse make a call on a cellphone and say: ‘I just shot someone.’

He flees and is pursued by many protesters, at least one of whom is armed with a handgun.

Rittenhouse falls to the ground and the crowd rushes in to seize his weapon.

He was hit over the head by protester Anthony Huber, 26, who had a skateboard and wanted to disarm him.

Rittenhouse then starts firing into the group and ended up killing Huber and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz.

He was not arrested until the following day, back in Illinois, despite approaching police with his hands in the air while other protesters yelled that he’d just shot multiple people.

He is in custody in Illinois.

A judge will decide at a hearing on Sept. 25 whether Rittenhouse will be extradited to Wisconsin, where he would be tried as an adult.

He faces six felony charges that include first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide, and a misdemeanor charge for possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor.