Trump engages in racism 'constantly': House minority leader

Pelosi told MSNBC on Sunday that she believes Trump is afraid of her and Representative Maxine Waters (D-California), who was repeatedly attacked by the president as being a “low IQ” person.

“He’s afraid of the women who are going to be coming into Congress,” she said. “He talks about there’s no place for racism and then he speaks that way, it’s really disgraceful.”

“It’s disrespectful to Maxine, to women, of course to minorities,” she added.

Ahead of the first anniversary of the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Trump tweeted on Saturday morning, "We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!"

Referencing the president’s tweet, Pelosi said that Trump “likes to make some statement in his tweet about no place for racism, and engages in it constantly. It’s shameful.”

Trump has repeatedly attacked both Pelosi and Waters.

Mocking the Democratic leader, Trump in a tweet on Friday called her a "wonderful person whose ideas & policies may be bad, but who should definitely be given a 4th chance."

Last year, white supremacist organized a violent mass rally, resulting in counter-rallies and street fights.

In Charlottesville, Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old legal assistant, was killed when a white supremacist slammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, and a police surveillance helicopter crashed nearby, leaving two state troopers dead that day.

In his Saturday tweet, Trump described the violent rallies as “riots”.

"The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division," Trump noted.

This year Trump called for unity among all Americans in the United States of America.

Last year, Trump claimed that there “were very fine people, on both sides" of the conflict.

Trump equated the actions of the white supremacists, who carried Nazi flags and chanted anti-Semitic slogans, to the actions and anti-racist chants of the counter-protesters.