Trump Has No Stance On Confederate Flag, Push Secretary Promises

White Property push secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed Monday that President Donald Trump doesn’t have an belief on the Confederate flag.

Just hours earlier, Trump tweeted to bemoan the flag’s absence at NASCAR situations, declaring the company’s final decision to ban the flag was responsible for the sport’s “lowest scores ever.” (Fox Sports govt Michael Mulvihill has explained NASCAR viewership is really up 8% since its return on May well 17.)

Asked continuously to explain why the president would not condemn the flag, a symbol of slavery and white supremacy, McEnany as a substitute deflected and reported Trump’s tweet was staying mischaracterized.

In one specifically illuminating exchange, Bloomberg reporter Mario Parker asked why Trump hadn’t praised NASCAR for banning the flag, specified “what it represents in conditions of treasonous functions and insurrection from the Republic.”

McEnany responded by criticizing the renewed nationwide movement to clear away Confederate monuments, then ― when pressed once more to tackle the flag especially ― explained the president had almost nothing to say about the challenge. 

“He’s not offered an belief 1 way or the other on that,” she mentioned. “I just spoke to him this morning.” 

The assert struck a chord with PBS White Residence correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.

“Let that sink in a moment,” she tweeted soon after the briefing. “The president of the United States cannot say whether he supports flying a flag involved with treason and supporters of slavery.”

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was also a focal point of Trump’s tweet earlier Monday. Wallace, who is Black, led the successful movement to ban the Accomplice flag from NASCAR situations. A noose was afterwards uncovered in his racetrack garage, which an FBI investigation concluded was not element of a targeted racist assault versus Wallace.

Trump baselessly named it a “hoax” and inexplicably demanded that Wallace apologize to other drivers.

“Love around dislike every single day,” Wallace responded on Twitter. “Love ought to appear obviously as people are TAUGHT to despise. Even when it’s Detest from the POTUS.”