The way Trumpies excuse Trump's equivocation is to make believe the order in which statements are made doesn't matter. It's as though I called you some anti-Semitic name, my mommy forces me to read an apology to you the next day, and the day after that, within earshot of you, I joke with my friends that I didn't mean a word of the apology I read. Nobody in his right mind would consider the apology I was forced to read to be the final word on the matter. That's why you saw Gary Cohn nearly resign after Trump canceled out his prepared Monday remarks with his off the cuff equivocation on Tuesday. Why during those Tuesday remarks General Kelly looked like he wanted to kill someone.

Blame the media, but they're not the ones making believe one can ignore Trump's own words rejecting his more appropriate statements from the prior day. Or making believe that by that Tuesday, in the aftermath of the murder of one person and deaths of two cops, anything about that awful weekend was about confederate statues. Trump was stating that good people marched with the racists and neo Nazis responsible for those deaths and for the most public display in the US of neonazism and white supremacy in decades. And when he did, that quote you guys love to try to claim was Trump's final word on the matter (that one you referenced, made on Monday, before his Tuesday remarks) were exposed for what they were - somebody else's thoughts Trump was forced to read, like mommy telling him to apologize.

The next day, Teusday, he bragged to his friends that he didn't mean it, within earshot of us all.

And was applauded by racists and the alt right, like David Dukes. Not because he was mislead by the evil anti trump media. It has nothing to do with whether Trump is a racist, just that they make up an important part of his base. He knows where his bread is buttered.