Trump furious over military ban on Confederate flags, report says
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The sources spoke to CNN and said the president — who has not publicly denounced the use of Confederate flags — said Mr Trump was angered by Mr Esper's move. Mr Trump claimed Thursday on Twitter that he talked to Senate Armed Services Chairman Senator Jim Inhofe, and claimed the senator said "he will NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases." In 2015 — two days after Mr Trump announced his presidency in the wake of the Dylan Roof's racist mass shooting at a historically black church — Mr Trump said the Confederate flag should be resigned to history. "I think they should put it in the museum and let it go," Mr Trump said in a response to a question about South Carolina flying the flag at its state capitol.
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