A word on the related issues of taking down Confederate monuments and renaming military bases named after Confederate generals. Trump is against both and today paraphrased the Santayana quote about those forgetting the past being doomed to repeat it, showing that he isn't literate enough to understand the quote. Nevertheless, let's review a bit of history. Those monuments were not erected in the aftermath of the Civil War. Some were erected in the aftermath of WWII when black soldiers coming home from Europe felt entitled to better treatment. Erecting Confederate statues was a subtle way of saying "guess again". The massacre in and destruction of the Greenwood district of Tulsa was less subtle. Many other Confederate monuments were erected in the fifties, clearly a white reaction to desegregation and voter registration drives. Similarly the naming of bases came during the World Wars after laws were passed allowing for the recruitment pf black soldiers. With a need for more bases because of the wars, many were built in the South because land was cheap. The government named them after local CSA generals as an appeasement to white southerners who were less than enthusiastic about "Yankee" bases being built in their backyards. Trump claims that they were named for leaders who have been admired by modern military leaders for their brilliance in battle. Actually many of them, Bragg, Pickens and Polk, are more remembered for their blunders.
To look at the issue in another perspective, there's a reason we would never allow Germans to build monuments to Hitler and Goebbels or name our bases there Fort Rommel and Airbase Goring. The idea of not giving modern day fascists and white nationalists rallying points is just as valid here as it is there.