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After hours of silence, President Donald Trump eventually commented about the white nationalist rally and related violence occurring in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday.
All of us have to be united & condemn all that despise stands for. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as you can!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2017
“We ALL have to be united & condemn all that despise stands for,” the president tweeted. “There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!”
He added Another tweet soon after:
Am in Bedminster for meetings & press conference about V.A. & all that we have done, and are doing, to make it better-but Charlottesville miserable!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2017
SEE ALSO: A round of applause for student counter-protesters who stood up to white supremacists at UVA
Trump tweeted after 1 p.m. on Saturday, almost two hours after Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of crisis in Charlottesville and the town determined that the scheduled Unite the perfect rally protesting the removal of Confederate monuments to be a form of unlawful assembly.
His tweet took a very long time, and it came after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan as well as First Lady Melania Trump had already commented.
The perspectives fueling the scene in Charlottesville are repugnant. Let it just serve to combine Americans against this kind of vile bigotry.
Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) August 12, 2017
Our nation encourages freedom of speech, but let us communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville
Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) August 12, 2017
Their commentary made the president earlier silence particularly noticeable. And a good deal of other folks had their own responses too.
Mr. President?
Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) August 12, 2017
Hell of a day to the President to overlook how to tweet. pic.twitter.com/ABffmwwH8D
J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 12, 2017
This can be on-purpose vague bc ur a wimp that stands 4 nothing & ur ignorant arrogance &overall absence of impulse control is beggingna get us killed https://t.co/rzcZcZmYDS
Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) August 12, 2017
The word ‘Charlottesville’ doesn’t appear in this Tweet. Man who blasted libs for not stating ‘Muslim’ terror averts ‘white nationalist.’ https://t.co/zFEQUWfO6U
Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 12, 2017
Only a reminder that this is what @POTUS tweeted after the protests that triggered cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos’s address at Berkeley. https://t.co/8rsY6KgaLQ
Jane Chong (@chongathon) August 12, 2017
“Anyone who is unable to name our enemy isn’t fit to lead this nation,” Trump said in September (referring to “radical Islamic terrorists”). https://t.co/MkELG0dJlI
David Mack (@davidmackau) August 12, 2017
The White House has no official link to the rally planned in Charlottesville, but a number of the marchers were Trump supporters who praised the president once they waved Nazi and Confederate flags. One Twitter user caught video of marchers yelling, “Heil Trump.”
Alt-right marcher yelling “Heil Trump.” pic.twitter.com/vAaXq5pFYc
Tom Perriello (@tomperriello) August 12, 2017
Some of the violence in Virginia was involving the white nationalist protesters and counter-protesters perhaps why Trump’s remark focusing on us all “[coming] together as one.”
Since J.K. Rowling stated, hell of a day to forget how to tweet.
Read more: http://mashable.com/
