Donald Trump is on the side of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Statues of Lee, who led the Confederate army, the slain soldiers he commanded, and others have stood in public squares across America for more than a century in many cases.
So, Trump strokes their ego with a side wink, reassuring them that no matter how much he boasts about having done more for African Americans in three years than any other president, his heart is really with them.
Three years ago, when neoNazis clashed with protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman in the crowd, Trump initially refused to condemn the white supremacists who held the rally at the site of Lee’s statue.
At the time, Graham said the manner in which Trump handled the Charlottesville tragedy had garnered the president praise from “some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country.”