US culture being ‘ripped apart’ by statue removals, says Trump
Washington — On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said the history and culture of the US were being "ripped apart" by the removal of statues memorialising the Confederate era. "Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," Trump wrote on Twitter. "You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson — who’s next. Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" Trump’s latest tweets pile more fuel on a political firestorm ignited by the president’s attempts to shift blame for deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia to anti-racism counter-protesters. The "Unite the Right" rally, which drew hundreds of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and white supremacists marching to anti-Semitic chants, was nominally prompted by plans to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee from a Charlottesville park. Lee and Jackson, another Confederate comman...
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