Sometimes a President has to speak for the soul of a nation. He has to trumpet America values.

And, it really wasn't so hard yesterday. White supremacists were gathered in an American Town, around the Statue of a Founding Father, chanting Nazi slogans, expressing hatred for Jews, Immigrants, and other races. One of them even launched a terrorist attack that left a woman dead, and many injured.

All Trump had to do was to forcefully and explicitly denounce white supremacy, and fascism.

But, he couldn't do it.

Trump is fervently opposed to political correctness -- except when it comes to racists, whom he strenuously avoids offending.



Trump -- once again -- fails to condemn the alt-right, white supremacists

Bridgewater, New Jersey (CNN)President Donald Trump, a man known for his bluntness, was anything but on Saturday, failing to name the white supremacists or alt-right groups at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Instead, the man whose vicious attacks against Hillary Clinton, John McCain, federal judges, fellow Republican leaders and journalists helped define him both in and out of the White House simply blamed "many sides."

Trump stepped to the podium at his New Jersey golf resort and read a statement on the clashes, pinning the "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. ... It has been going on for a long time in our country -- not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama," he said. "It has been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America."

Fellow Republicans slammed Trump's lack of directness and attempt to inject moral equivalence into the situation of chaos and terror.

"We should call evil by its name," tweeted Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the most senior Republican in the Senate. "My brother didn't give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home."

Last edited by Goose (8/13/2017 7:45 am)