'Can't change history': Trump sides with white nationalists and praises 'beautiful' Confederate statues

President Donald Trump followed up his early morning tweet storm on Thursday by lamenting that Confederate statues are being taken down all across the U.S. and saying it's "sad."

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," wrote the president, who has come under the heaviest fire of his administration in recent days over his gross mishandling of the response to the violence in Charlottesville, VA.

He followed up by saying, "You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!"

And then, "Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"