In an impromptu news conference, "President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations," The New York Times reports, "equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend." The word "unprecedented" has been used a lot with Trump during his short presidency, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman write, "but members of the president's staff, stunned and disheartened, said they never expected to hear such a voluble articulation of opinions that the president had long expressed in private." That's the "straight" news.