Trump Condemns Confederate Statue Removal on Twitter, Calls Statues ‘Beautiful’
Amid a national debate about what to do with statues and monuments honoring Confederate leaders, President Trump has weighed in on Twitter.
He tweeted Thursday morning that it was sad to see the “history and culture of our great country being ripped apart.”
He went on to reiterate a point he made during his Tuesday press conference at Trump Tower. After answering questions about the violence in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend when a group of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and KKK members protested the removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue from Emancipation Park, he asked, “I wonder, is it George Washington next? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after that?”
On Thursday morning, he tweeted, “you can’t change history, but you can learn from it.”
He also called the statues a “beauty … never able to be comparably replaced!”
Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
…can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
…the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017