Statues of dead white guys who fought to uphold slavery. So beautiful.
| |  |  | | with Josh Hafner | | OnPolitics Today: Trump defends 'beauty' of Confederate statues |  | | What comes to mind when you consider America's beauty? | | Perhaps the stunning canyons of Sedona, Ariz., or the sparkling waters on Hawaii's Na Pali coast. The jagged mountains of Grand Teton National Park, or the blue-green Gulf along the Florida Keys. | | President Trump, however, would add another attraction to that list: Statues of dead white guys who fought to uphold slavery - the sort further targeted for removal in the wake of Charlottesville. | | "So foolish!" Trump tweeted Thursday, adding that "the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!" | | Ah yes, what could replace the dead-eyed visage of "Stonewall" Jackson, now gone from Baltimore's Wyman Park Dell? Perhaps Trump could ask Jackson's own great-great-grandsons, who called such statues "pre-existing iconography for racists." | | It's OnPolitics Today, the daily politics roundup from USA TODAY. Subscribe here. | After Barcelona tragedy, Trump tweets fake history about Muslims | | A driver mowed down pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday, killing 13. The Islamic State claimed the attack. After Trump condemned the tragic violence on Twitter, he pointed followers toward a long-discredited tale. | | "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught," Trump said. "There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!" | | Trump referred to a tale he told during his campaign, when the storied general dipped bullets in pigs blood before shooting 49 out of "50 terrorists," as Trump said at a South Carolina rally in 2016.
"���And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened," Trump continued. "And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem." | | It's a bizarre story for anyone to tell. And it's also a "ridiculous" one according to historians, per Politifact, which rated Trump's claim as totally false. | Trump's alienating himself in Washington. It could aid his downfall. | | Trump's defense of neo-Nazi allies in Charlottesville and his attacks of would-be allies in his own party could leave him all alone as the Russia probe closes in. He's angered a lot of key Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell, Bob Corker , Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham - and those are just the ones we've reported on since Wednesday.
Flake and Graham sit on the the Senate committee investigating Russia. And if damaging information arises, political analysts say, GOP party leaders could make a clean break from Trump. "I think most Republicans in Congress would be very content to see Mike Pence take Trump's place," said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. | Elsewhere in politics | | | | | MOST SHARED USA TODAY STORIES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FOLLOW US Thank you for subscribing to On Politics. © 2017 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC.
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