A political call to arms but i would imagine that as people wake up here in the United States in the next 6 to 8 hours theyre going to hear what the president had to say and theyre going to point out a couple of facts 1st that a lot of the statues that have been targeted by antiracism protesters were in fact then removed by local government and the other factor is that these statues in large part basically celebrated people who fought for the confederacy which sought to in shrines of slavery as a political and economic reality in the southern how of the United States and those statues were raised not in the 19th century but in the middle of the 20th century during the last prominent wave of civil rights activities in this country now that doesnt matter to donald trump hes running for reelection his numbers are down and certainly before a crowd of people who can only be described as some of his perhaps most ardent supporters the president had this to say about those who sit on the other