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Charlottesville protests

The protests in Charlottesville and President Trump's response to them

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Jan 12, 2026
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What were the exact words of Donald Trump's 'good people on both sides' remark after Charlottesville?

The phrase that became shorthand for the fallout over President Donald Trump’s response to the 2017 Charlottesville violence was, in transcript form, “You had some very bad people in that group, but y...

Jan 20, 2026

How did media and civil-rights organizations interpret Trump’s Charlottesville remarks compared with his earlier comments about white supremacists?

Media outlets and civil-rights groups diverged sharply in their readings of President Trump’s 2017 Charlottesville remarks: mainstream press and many civil-rights organizations characterized his first...

Jan 20, 2026

Has Donald Trump ever explicitly denounced the Ku Klux Klan?

Donald Trump has, on multiple public occasions, used language that explicitly condemns the Ku Klux Klan and similar white-supremacist groups—most notably calling the KKK and neo-Nazis “repugnant” afte...

Jan 12, 2026

What have independent fact-checkers concluded about whether Trump later condemned white supremacists explicitly?

Independent fact-checkers concluded that President Donald Trump did, on multiple documented occasions, explicitly condemn white supremacists and neo‑Nazis — notably in statements after the 2017 Charlo...