US President Donald Trump on Friday said the Florida high school shooting was "sad" after he met with victims recovering in hospital. The president was accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and spoke with the media briefly before leaving Pompano Beach's Broward Health North hospital late Friday, dpa reported. "It's sad something like this could happen," the president said of the shooting at a Parkland high school on Wednesday in which 17 people were killed and 14 others injured.