The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website August 12, 2018:
President Trump condemned “all types of racism” in a tweet on the first anniversary of the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Video: Elyse Samuels /Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
Sharply criticized for his failure to immediately condemn racist protesters after last year’s unrest in Charlottesville, President Trump this year tried to get out ahead of the issue before a planned march in Washington on Sunday.
“The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division,” Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon. “We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!”
Trump was also criticized after Charlottesville for his equation of the concerns of the white-nationalist groups with those of the people coming out to oppose those groups. In his tweet on Saturday, he did the same thing.