PROTESTS/STATUES: “They’re taking down everything and they call it ‘cancel culture.’ I don’t think it’s a beautiful term, but it’s actually very descriptive. . . . They want to cancel everything. They want to cancel the good and the bad. They started off by canceling things that were controversial, and I actually said years ago. . . . ‘Well, does that mean that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are next?’ And it turns out that they are next. . . . I was sort of half-joking, and people are now saying ‘Trump was right.’ These people are crazy. They’ve gone stone-cold crazy.”
-Donald Trump on July 8, 2020 as quoted by Marc A. Thiessen, “An interview with President Trump: ‘The real hate is the hate from the other side,’” washingtonpost.com, July 9, 2020