A heated Don Lemon rebuked President Trump's comments Tuesday on the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, saying that by defending the violent white supremacists, "you saw the real Donald Trump, proving all of his critics right in that moment."
The jaw-dropping press conference at Trump Tower was a "sad moment for the country," the CNN anchor said, and Trump's remarks on removing Confederate statues and his inability to distinguish between the so-called "alt-left" and white supremacist groups showed that he is "ignorant of history. He does not know context. He should be ashamed of himself. He should go back to school and get an elementary education on how this country started and about protest groups and how this country works."
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