Donald Trump was interviewed by Fox and Friends personality Brian Kilmeade when he was asked if he had anything to say to the people that want to remove statues of Confederate generals and other individuals who promoted slavery.
Trump called the statues “beautiful pieces of work” and claimed that Black Americans need to “learn from history.”
Kimleade, trying to paint Trump as the savior of the black community, asked Trump the following: “Since you have done a lot for the African-American community, what is your message to them when their ancestors were enslaved because of [these leaders who are commemorated on these monuments]?”
This was Trump’s response:
“My message is that we have a great country, we have the greatest country on Earth. We have a heritage, we have a history and we should learn from the history, and if you don’t understand your history, you will go back to it again. You will go right back to it. You have to learn. Think of it, you take away that whole era and you’re going to go back to it sometime. People won’t know about it. They’re going to forget about it. It’s okay.”
“Now what I do like, I like the idea of building new statues to people, to great people. People that have done something. And I think that’s okay.”
“But you don’t want to take away our heritage and history and the beauty, in many cases, the beauty, the artistic beauty. Some of the sculptures and some of this work is some of the great — you can go to France, you can go anywhere in the world and you will never see more magnificent work. And that’s a factor. It’s not the biggest factor but it’s a factor.”
Take a look at the video clip below:
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