Sad to see history of our great country being ripped apart, says US Trump on confederate statue removal

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," he tweeted.

America is witnessing a cycle of violence and protests since the white nationalists marched last weekend to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. The incident has sparked a re-evaluation of Confederate statues across America as they are seen as symbol of a disgraceful past of America when slavery and racism officially existed.

Calling the removal of statues a foolish move, Trump said, "You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!"

He said that the damage done by the removal will leave a mark forever.

"Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!" he said.

The statement by the US President came hours after the city of Baltimore removed four confederate monuments.

Meanwhile, following his presscon on Tuesday, the US President invited condemnation from close corners after he partly expressed solidarity with white supremacists when he said that the incident could be blamed on both sides.

Talking about the massive protest in Charlottesville, he said that some of the people in the group were nice protesting taking down of an important statue and they were not neo-Nazis.

"I think there is blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there is blame object both on both sides. I have no doubt about it. You don't have doubt about it either. If you reported it accurately, you would say that the neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville.

"Excuse me. They didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis. You had some very bad people in that group. You also had some very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name," said Trump.

Talking about the taking down of statues, the US President said that George Washington was a slave owner and asked if they would also take down his statue.

On Saturday, white supremacists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in USA, triggering violence in which a 32-year-old woman was killed and 19 people were injured after a driver ploughed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters.

Two state troopers were killed when their police helicopter on surveillance crashed.

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