'White Supremacist in Chief': Internet crushes Trump's latest defense of 'beautiful' Confederate...

[DonViejo]

‘White Supremacist in Chief’: Internet crushes Trump’s latest defense of ‘beautiful’ Confederate statues

BRAD REED
17 AUG 2017 AT 10:00 ET

President Donald Trump on Thursday weighed back in on the debate over whether to remove statues and monuments erected in tribute to politicians and generals who served in the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” the president wrote on Twitter. “The beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!”

Many Twitter users were quick to hammer Trump for his praise of “beautiful” Confederate monuments, most of which were erected decades after the end of the Civil War, as a chart posted by CNN’s Brian Ries shows.

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[dalton99a]

1. These are must-see photos

[underpants]

2. Where is the second to last one?

What monument is that?

[moondust]

7. The one with the inscription

appears to be the Battle of Liberty Place Monument in New Orleans. Completed in 1891, dismantled on April 24, 2017.

[underpants]

8. Okay. Thanks.

[volstork]

3. I have to look at that shitty

N.B. Forrest statue every time I get on the interstate by my house. It infuriates me. Nothing to be done-- it's on private (racist) property.

[Lars39]

4. I am so sorry, volstork, I know how you feel.

I pass it sometimes on the way to Franklin. It is the ugliest damn thing and should not even be seen from the road, but somebody pulled strings and got the state to cut down the trees in front of it years ago!
It always gets the one-finger salute from me.

[volstork]

5. Then I will begin saluting it with

one finger, too!
I wonder how wide the interstate easement is; maybe we could plant some leyland cyprus trees in the easement and have that monstrosity disappear in 3 years!

[Lars39]

6. That'd be great.

Something should have been replanted at the time of the mowing "mistake"