President Trump left New York City on Wednesday after a two-day stay that included perhaps the most explosive moments of his presidency. Josh Robin has more on the fallout over the president's remarks about the deadly violence in Virginia.
His name is still very visible on his skyscraper, but President Trump is gone from Trump Tower.
Still, what he said in his gold-plated lobby Tuesday will long reverberate:
"You also had people that were very fine people — on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me. Excuse me. I saw the same pictures that you did," Trump said to reporters.
"Jews will not replace us! Blood and soil!" is what a marching crowd of white supremacists, spouting racism and anti-Semitism, seen on "VICE News Tonight on HBO," said in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday night, carrying torches.
We reached out to the president's spokeswoman, asking if she could point out fine the people affiliated with the white power cause in Charlottesville.
She didn't get back to us.
Trump's statement is reported to be disgusting people in his administration, and it's had business and labor leaders bolting from White House panels, including from Merck and Under Armour, Intel, Alliance for American manufacturing, AFL-CIO, and Campbell Soup Company.
Amid the exodus, Trump dismissed the groups with a tweet:
Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2017
He also tweeted that Heather Heyer, the woman mowed down, allegedly by a white supremacist from Ohio on Saturday, was "beautiful and incredible."
And while Trump did condemn racism Tuesday, it was with far more nuance than top Republican lawmakers and even his attorney general, who labeled it domestic terrorism, which the president said it "could be."
"We cannot — and in no way can we — accept, apologize for racism, bigotry, hatred, violence, and those kinds of things that too often arise in our country," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
In South America, Vice President Mike Pence said the president "has been clear on this tragedy."
"And so have I," Pence said. "I spoke at length about this heartbreaking situation on Sunday night in Colombia, and I stand with the president, and I stand by those words."
Pence cut his trip short, and is slated to attend a Camp David summit on Friday.
The White House said that at Camp David, the president will discuss the situation in South Asia with national security officials. Left unsaid, however, is if more will be on the agenda.