President Trump went on a Thursday tweetstorm against the removal of Confederate statues across the country, saying the “history and culture” of the United States is “being ripped apart.”
”Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” in a . ”You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! “
: ”the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!”
The president was met with a torrent of criticism when he spoke out on Tuesday in defense of the white supremacist groups that gathered in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend for a “Unite the Right” rally.
The groups — including neo-Nazis and the KKK — got into violent clashes with those opposed to t🐻hem, leading to the death of one woman who was mowed down by a car during the counter-protests.
Trump, a๊t a news conference at Trump Tower🏅, said many of the hate groups were there to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park and questioned how many more statues and monuments would be removed.
”So, this week it’s Robert E. Lee,” Trump said. “I notice that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”