Remember when Donald Trump tried to disavow himself from the “Send her back” chant? That was yesterday, today there’s a different story. Vox writes that the president now says his supporters who chanted are “patriots”:
Trump abruptly reversed course and defended them.
During an Oval Office event on Friday that was ostensibly to honor Apollo 11 astronauts, Trump cut off a reporter who tried to ask him about his effort to distance himself from the chants, and instead offered a full-throated defense of not only his supporters who made them but also racist tweets he posted last Sunday that incited them.