WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is back at the White House and ignoring shouted questions about the race-fueled clashes in in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump briefly waved as he walked alone into the building, which is under renovation. He did not respond to loud queries from reporters about whether he condemns white supremacists and whether he condemns the actions of neo-Nazis.
One woman was killed Saturday when a car plowed into a group of counter-protesters who’d gathered to oppose a rally by white nationalists and others who oppose a plan to remove from a Charlottesville park of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Trump has said “many sides” are to blame for violence.
The president is in Washington for one day during a working vacation mostly in Bedminster, New Jersey.
He will ‘denounce’ white supremacists and Nazis later today in highly uncertain terms, as Josh has suggested.
And anyone who, having heard this, says or writes, “Well, that’s alright, then.” is a chump.
At this point, I think it’s highly possible he just… won’t.
I dunno, I consider my Bayesian priors pretty damn weak at this point.
Who is paying for the renovations.
Better yet, who designed them?
My bet: “Yada, Yada, Nazis and white supremacists are bad, blah, blah. But left wing violence, a growing problem. Yada, Yada, false dichotomies, whataboutisms, blah, blah, more false equivalences, we must unite and come together as a nation and reject violence from “many sides””.
If it happens, it will sound similar to his announcement that President Obama was born in this country and will lack any semblance of sincerity. Firing Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, Stephen Miller would lend some credibility but not much at this point.