Did that make anyone feel better?

[Control-Z]

Anyone?

The message was no different today.

Someone wrote down a few expected words for him to read but his message didn't change one iota.

And when he said "and other hategroups" I could almost hear him thinking "other hategroups like liberals and Mexicans and women and the media and..."

Anyone who thinks this made it better is just trying to prop the bastard up.

[Wounded Bear]

1. His generic rhetoric about "protecting rights" sounded more like...

he wants to protect the RW extremists and not the peaceful side of the protests.

[Control-Z]

7. Yup, that inclusive speak, love each other

and equality for all, blah blah blah, was just plain BS and everyone knows it. He had to make it sound like he cared about everyone's rights after making it so clear over the weekend how he really felt. It was all window dressing. Like you said, what he really wants is to protect the RW extremists.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Wants to have it both ways

Here's what he's accomplished. His statement this weekend made White Supremacists very happy, they know he has their back. This statement will make the rest of his party happy as it was appropriate. The White Supremacists will know today's statement was forced on him and he said what he really meant this weekend.

He did this exact type of thing throughout his campaign. These hate groups have direct lines into the White House, there is no doubt they were given a heads up about today's statement and told not to worry.

There are several dozen or more of these clowns on film committing crimes, how many of them get prosecuted will be telling. I bet a hand full of them at most face charges, when it should be 100 or more. Trump's justice department won't do much.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. All it did is make me wonder

who in his mal-administration brought enough pressure to bear in a half-assed attempt at damage control. His heart was obviously not in it while delivering those scripted lines.

[Solly Mack]

4. I heard it that way too.

[frazzled]

5. A denouncement after begging six ways to Sunday

from every possible group, the media, and even his own party members for more than forty-eight hours is not a denouncement. It's merely a way to try to get rid of the argument.

This is true for apologies as well. If you have to explain the wrong to the person sixty-eleven times before they finally say, "I'm sorry," it's not an apology. It's simply too late to count as sincere.

The only thing that can cement a denouncement or apology after that period of time is not words, but a change in future actions and behavior. And that rarely happens.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. As someone said, he looked like a hostage reading a statement written by his captors.