"There can be no moral ambiguity"

President Trump brought a new wave of criticism with his statements at a press conference on Tuesday in New York. His statements even caused a spontaneous demonstration of protest in the city.

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"They are not the voice of my country"

Donald Trump was going to talk about his project to update the infrastructure, but he assumed that he would have to answer questions about events in Charlotsville - in his jacket pocket the text of his first statement on this topic was lying.

“We condemn these egregious forms of hatred, fanaticism and violence manifested by many sides with all determination,” the president said then, on August 12, “they have no place in America.” “Many parties” were perceived as a sign of Donald Trump's reluctance to condemn racism and neo -Nazism. Two days later, he did this: he called racism evil and added: "The grouping groups of the group-such as Ku-Klux-Klan, neo-Nazis and white Supremasists (supporters of the theory of superiority of the white race.-V.A.) -are incompatible with everything that is dear to the Americans."

When Trump was asked why he hesitated with this condemnation at the New York press conference, he replied that he was not hesitated, but he wanted, unlike the "false" press, to find out the facts. He quoted his first statement on a piece of paper, but at the same time missed the words about the "many sides." However, in the future it turned out that he really was guilty of the incident on aggressive participants in the action on both sides of the protest.

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"And what is ultralel? There is no fault on them?"

According to him, among those and others there were peaceful protesters, but there were those who strove for a clash and violence.

“You are talking about the ultra-right,” the president said. “But what do you say about the ultrales who have come there to clarify with those whom you call the ultra-right? They feel at least some kind of guilt? They came there, waving baseball bats, in your opinion, does nothing mean?”

("Ultra right" is a conditional translation. In fact, the president and journalists use the word alt-right-"other right-wing". This is the self-ownings of the most radical, non-systemic conservatives. On the model of this word, Trump constructs its own-alt-Left, "other left-wing".)

“Mr. President,” the journalist asked, “you put on one board of those whom you called ultra -willy, and white Supremassists?”

“I don’t put anyone on any board,” Donald Trump answered. “I say that both came with baseball bats to attack each other, and it was disgusting and terrible. And it was terrible to look at it.”

When asked whether interracial relations have become worse or better since he took office, the president replied: “I think they have become better or remained the same. After all, they worsened for a long time. Ask President Obama about it, he will tell you on this topic. But I am sure that millions of new jobs will soon appear in the country, and this will have a tremendous positive effect on interracial relations.”

The 44th US President Barack Obama answered Donald Trump Twit, who became the most popular in the history of the microblog.

"No one is Born Hating Another Person BecAuse of the Color of His Skin or His Background Or His Religion ..." Pic.twitter.com/inz58zkooam

- Barack Obama (@barackobama) August 13, 2017

"No one is born with hatred of another person because of the color of the skin, its origin or religion."

Donald Trump's statements caused an acute reaction of prominent members of the Republican Party. The speaker of the Lower House of Congress Paul Ryan, in particular, said: "We must express ourselves with clear: the theory of white superiority is disgusting. This fanaticism contradicts everything that the United States is defended. There can be no moral ambiguity." The leader of the democrats in the Senate Chuck Schumer, in turn, said that, refusing to stand on one side or another, the president clearly showed which side he was on. The spokesman for the leader of the republican majority in the Senate of Mitch MacConnella said that the senator has no comments on this topic.

The clashes lasted several hours on Saturday, when white nationalists arrived in Charlotsville to protect the monument to General of the Confederates Robert Lee from dismantling, and tried to hold a rally of protest. Supporters of dismantling the monument carried out their procession when a car crashed into the crowd, which was driven by 20-year-old James Fields, who was considered a supporter of neo-Nazi views, although, according to his mother, he openly never expressed them. As a result of the collision of the car, 32-year-old Heiser Heyer died, 19 people were injured.

According to, referring to numerous sources, the NBC News television company, the unplanned statements of Donald Trump brought to confusion his device. Initially, it was assumed that the president would only present his project to reporters and leave, and members of his office and advisers will answer questions. But Trump could not control his temperament and entered into a discussion with journalists. “He became uncontrollable,” the NBC quoted an older official not named named.

This information is confirmed by the Bloomberg news agency.

Meanwhile, a wave of tension in the country does not fall. In Darema, North Carolina, the authorities are investigating the self -polling demolition of the statue of a soldier of the Confederation, which took place on Monday. The police arrested a woman named Takya Thompson. She was identified by a video published on social networks, and does not deny her participation in the action. As the Sheriff of the County Damrem Andrews said , Thompson was charged with violation of public order. The damage from the demolition of the monument is estimated at one and a half thousand dollars.

In Baltimore, where on the night of August 16, by the decision of the city council, four monuments were demolished, a monument to the chairman of the US Supreme Court Roger Tony, who was never a slave owner, was also demolished and disposed of a linkoal President, who abolished the rights of rights during the Civil War. This dispute entered the textbooks as an example of a fundamental and independent position of the judiciary. The mayor of Baltimore Katherine Pyu said that the monuments were demolished in the name of calm. “I did what is right for my city,” she said.

Exceptionally nervous situation is preserved in Virginia. The Governor of Terry Macoliff, in an interview with national public radio, entrusted the country's riots in Charlotsville for the country's largest human rights organization - the American civil rights union (ACLU). It was ACLU who went to court when the Charlotsville authorities decided to transfer the action in defense of the statue of General Lee to the outskirts of the city. The court confirmed the right of Protestants to protest next to the statue. “The action should not have been held in the city center,” said Macoliff. “It turned into a powder barrel.”

The position of ACLU was explained in his statement by its executive director Anthony Romero. "Aclu unconditionally rejects the ideology of white Supremassists and fights her with all his might," the statement said. However, in this case, we are talking about protecting freedom of speech: "We deeply believe that our democracy will benefit if it knows the views contrary to it. Racism and fanaticism will not disappear if they drive them underground." ACLU, says Romero, protects the freedom of the neo -Nazis in the same way as he defended freedom of speech by anarchists, communists, participants in the anti -war movement and civil rights fighters.

It is worth adding to this that the propaganda of Nazism is not prohibited by any US laws until it remains peaceful and does not violate public order. Hitler’s books, as well as the works of Marx and Lenin, are sold in any large American bookstore.

Terry Macoliff was also answered by the head of the Virgin branch of ACLU Claire Gastanaga. In her opinion, ACLU, but the inaction of the authorities and the police, who could not or did not want to prevent violence, led to the tragedy in Charlotsville. Gastanaga claims that she was at the venue of the action and saw with her own eyes that the police "passively watched" what was happening, waiting for the moment when the outbreak of violence would declare a state of emergency and cancel the action as illegal. To her concern, says Gastanaga, the head of the public security department and the head of the Virginia Police did not respond.

Jay Tolson from the Institute for Culture of the University of Virginia, editor The Hedgehog Review , explains what is happening in American society:

- What we see now is a request from a number of groups of society, mainly African American, but not only them, to revise how we remember the civil war. Memory and history are not the same thing. As the New York Times, the Executive Director of the American Association of Historians, James Grossman, "Bracing the monuments, you do not change the story. You are not changing the story. You are only changing the way you remember." So this cultural war, which we are now observing in our society, did not begin last weekend in Charlotsville. She has been going on for years. She is about how we recall the civil war and its heritage.