Trump Signs Resolution Condemning White Supremacy

Story highlights

• Trump signed the joint resolution condemning white supremacy and honoring Heather Heyer
• On Thursday, he again blamed both sides for the violence in Charlottesville

In the White House statement, Trump said he opposed bigotry in all forms.

"No matter the color of our skin or our ethnic heritage, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God," Trump said.

Congress

passed

the resolution earlier this week, pushing Trump to put his signature on something expressly singling out white supremacy for condemnation. The White House said in response to the resolution's passage that Trump would "absolutely" sign it, and looked forward to the opportunity.

The resolution condemned the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month and "white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other hate groups."

The resolution also honored

Heather Heyer

, who was killed amid the racially charged violence that weekend. A 20-year-old, who

acquaintances described

as a neo-Nazi sympathizer, was charged with second-degree murder in Heyer's death.

Trump initially responded to the deadly incident by

decrying violence

on "many sides," then after sustained calls for him to denounce white supremacy specifically, Trump

delivered

a statement doing so.

Then at a press conference several days later, Trump

said

there were "very fine people" on both sides.

On Wednesday, Trump met with GOP South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the chamber's lone African-American Republican. The President said Thursday that the meeting went well, but repeated rhetoric

casting blame

on both sides for the violence at Charlottesville.

CNN's Elizabeth Landers contributed to this report.

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