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    Not Even Trump Wants to Praise Robert E. Lee

    Twentieth-century American presidents lionized the Confederate general. Now the tide is shifting.
    by Yoni Appelbaum Oct 15, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Scott Threlkeld / AP

    On Sunday morning, President Trump broke with precedent, discarded norms, and did something few of his predecessors would ever have considered: He angrily denied the suggestion that he had praised Robert E. Lee.

    “NBC News has totally and purposely changed the point and meaning of my story about General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses Grant,” Trump objected in a tweet. “Was actually a shoutout to warrior Grant and the great state in which he was born. As usual, dishonest reporting. Even mainstream media embarrassed!”

    Trump didn’t respond to NBC by attacking the network for its clear implication that praising a Confederate leader would be inappropriate. Instead, he emphasized that he’d really been praising

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