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President Trump tweeted on Thursday that the removal of Confederate statues from cities and towns across the country is "beauty that... will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"
The white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday was inspired by the planned removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Emancipation Park. Baltimore removed four statues this week, and other cities are planning to remove statues from their public spaces.
Trump started tweeting on Thursday morning that it was "sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart".
Trump's "who's next, Washington?" comment is reminiscent of his controversial press conference on Tuesday when he backed the white supremacists in Charlottesville for protecting the statues.
As New York Times journalist Mike Barbaro noted, Donald Trump wasn't so careful about protecting historical beauty when it came to building Trump Tower.
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