Critics, including a handful of Congressional Republicans, suggested that Trump was falsely equating the neo-Nazis, KKK members and white supremacists protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with those marching against the hate groups.
Since then, an unnamed spokesman for the White House has updated the statement to say ‘of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, Neo-Nazi and all extremist groups.’
But Trump hasn’t personally condemned the hate groups by name.
Instead, Trump spent his Sunday out of journalists’ sights, not making public appearances and staying off Twitter throughout the day.
Around 6 p.m. he finally retweeted several pieces of positive coverage, but made no mention of the Charlottesville violence again.
It took Trump under an hour to respond to Frazier’s decision to quit the manufacturing board.