Trump says he doesn’t think white nationalism is a rising global threat

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President Trump said Friday that he does not believe white nationalism is becoming a threat around the world, despite Friday’s terror attack in New Zealand by an alleged white nationalist.

“I don’t really,” Trump said, while taking questions in the Oval Office. “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess. If you look what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that’s the case. I don’t know enough about it yet … But it’s certainly a terrible thing.”

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