The actions against RIM and these unprecedented sanctions for a white-supremacist group come after years of calls for President Trump to more forcefully condemn racist hate. The President has downplayed the threat of white nationalism in the past, but recent years have seen several horrific attacks motivated by that ideology, including the New Zealand mosque massacre, an anti-immigrant mass shooting in El Paso, and an anti-Semitic mass killing at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.