Today President Trump made new remarks about the violence in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday:
Responding to public pressure, Pres Trump specifically cites KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists as "repugnant to everything we hold dear." pic.twitter.com/JDsb9yGbok
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 14, 2017
Speaking under a portrait of George Washington, Pres Trump said all those who engaged in racist violence "will be held fully accountable."
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 14, 2017
"Racism is evil," said Pres Trump. "And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs." (Pool photo @GregClugstonDC) pic.twitter.com/n3jTeFdb6K
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 14, 2017
The media were quick to criticize:
.@realDonaldTrump "hatred, bigotry and violence.." he names them under pressure.
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) August 14, 2017
And NBC News’ Katy Tur knows Trump’s words were’t sincere. How?
Its striking that he has to carefully read it off a teleprompter. He railed against prompters yet he can't speak from the heart about racism https://t.co/olP7gXjR80
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) August 14, 2017
Really want to go there?
Funny, for 8 years we were told reading off a Teleprompter leads to "the greatest orator of our nation's history". https://t.co/lMOfAaFJRu
— Brad Slager: It's Lt-Col-VP-Rev-Kaiser, SIR ? ? (@MartiniShark) August 14, 2017
if employing a teleprompter means you're not speaking from the heart, Obama never loved a thing. https://t.co/rIRdyIEV72
— Corinne Clark (@corinnec) August 14, 2017
Amazing, isn’t it? But at least it’s nice of a journo to say that so many of Obama’s speeches weren’t “from the heart.”
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/897143348850556928
As predicted. Never enough. And if you do what they want, they seize on it to make more demands. @KatyTurNBC, this is why America is divided https://t.co/qYOZg7cgdq
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) August 14, 2017
Then: Trump's words are sloppy indicating that he doesn't care
Now: Trump's words are carefully prepared indicating he doesn't care https://t.co/O3G6vVWGEI
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 14, 2017
Or maybe he's just worried he'll say something off-topic and you guys will pounce, where with a careful script you'll oh wait https://t.co/By6OcLKSYQ
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) August 14, 2017