ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday [8-17-17] called on President Donald Trump to send an ‘unequivocal message’ that he would not stand for the ‘hate and racism’ seen over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, rejecting the president’s notion that blame lay with ‘both sides’ taking part in the event.
‘There are not two sides to bigotry and there are not two sides to hatred,’ the former California governor told the website ATTN in a video interview. ‘If you choose to march with the flag that symbolizes the slaughter of millions of people, there are not two sides to that.’
Schwarzenegger’s comments serve as a rebuttal to Trump’s assertion during a Tuesday news conference that there was ‘blame on both sides’ of the white supremacist rally Saturday in Virginia that left one person dead and dozens of others injured.
While the White House eventually released an unequivocal rebuke of the hate groups that attended the rally, the president has repeatedly wavered in his public statements on the matter, at times casting the violence as a lamentable tragedy and other times a mutual display of aggression by white nationalists and counter-protesters. His initial failure to denounce white supremacists outright has drawn widespread criticism and scorn from military leaders, business executives and even some Republican lawmakers.”
-Chistiano Lima, “Schwarzenegger jabs Trump: ‘There are not two sides to bigotry’,” Politico, Aug. 17, 2017 09:12pm