--- title: Donald Trump: Charlottesville Remarks Transcript description: President Trump condemned the violent attack on a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va. Read his complete remarks. canonical: https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-14T17:06:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:58:48.322Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read President Trump's Remarks Condemning White Supremacists og:description: "Racism is evil." og:url: https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a8bbfce612f2087/6988d9a38fd2eea43d35869e/donald-trump-charlottesville1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3793 og:image:height: 2134 og:image:alt: Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read President Trump's Remarks Condemning White Supremacists twitter:description: "Racism is evil." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a8bbfce612f2087/6988d9a38fd2eea43d35869e/donald-trump-charlottesville1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read President Trump's Remarks Condemning White Supremacists by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Aug 14, 2017 5:06 PM UTC  President Donald Trump pauses while speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. President Donald Trump pauses while speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.Evan Vucci—AP by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Aug 14, 2017 5:06 PM UTC President Trump [condemned](http://time.com/4899810/donald-trump-charlottesville/) the [violent attack](http://time.com/4899404/charlottesville-attacker-james-alex-fields-jr-bail/) on a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., that left one dead and 19 injured Saturday. Speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room in the White House Monday afternoon, Trump said plainly that “racism is evil” and that members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo Nazis and white supremacists are “repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” “As I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws. We all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God,” he said. Read his complete remarks. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/"},"headline":"Read President Trump's Remarks Condemning White Supremacists","datePublished":"2017-08-14T17:06:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:58:48.322Z","description":"President Trump condemned the violent attack on a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va. Read his complete remarks.","url":"https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","White House","Charlottesville"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a8bbfce612f2087/6988d9a38fd2eea43d35869e/donald-trump-charlottesville1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a8bbfce612f2087/6988d9a38fd2eea43d35869e/donald-trump-charlottesville1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump","caption":"Trump","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/","name":"Read President Trump's Remarks Condemning White Supremacists"}}]}] ```