I don’t think he ever referred to Confederate generals as villains.
Right. I was hesitant for good reason. Should have done my usual searches and citation including author and date of source. I was wrong.
Brie Simpson, Fox News, June 21, 2020.
“Back then, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver mocked the president for his grim prediction.
“So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down,” Trump said at an August 2017 news conference on the protests that year in Charlottsville, Va., that sparked from the plans to remove some Confederate statues.
I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You really have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Trump said. “