Trump downplays white nationalism threat after massacre

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is playing down any threat posed by racist white nationalism after the gunman accused of the New Zealand mosque massacre called the president “a symbol of renewed white identity.”
Trump, whose own previous responses to the movement have drawn scrutiny, expressed sympathy Friday for the victims who died at “places of worship turned into scenes of evil killing.” But he declined to join expressions of mounting concern about white