President Trump said today he does not believe white nationalism is a rising global threat after a gunman who espoused that ideology massacred 49 Muslims at mosques in New Zealand during their afternoon prayers.

“I don’t really,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether white nationalists were a growing global threat.

“I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. It’s certainly a terrible thing.”

Trump said had not seen a manifesto that named him as an inspiration for white identity ideology.

There has been a sharp increase in the proportion of attacks carried out by right-wing extremists and religious extremists, according to a report from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).

Trump’s remarks came during an Oval Office ceremony he held to issue his first veto of a resolution blocking him from moving money around to build a wall along the southern border aimed at keeping out undocumented immigrants.

Trump, who has stoked fear about violent criminals and terrorists coming into the country from Mexico, has also claimed without evidence that “Middle Easterns” are sneaking in with asylum seekers and that Muslim prayer rugs had been found at the border.

Trump has a long history of derogatory remarks about Muslims, including declaring in 2016 that “Islam hates us.”

He formally proposed banning all Muslims from entering the United States during the presidential campaign, and since taking office his administration has implemented policies barring citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

The alleged shooter wrote that he was a supporter of Trump in one sense but not completely: “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policymaker and leader? Dear god no.”

In the document, the man also stated that he was following the example of notorious right-wing extremists, including Dylann Roof, who killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.

When white nationalists descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, their “Unite the Right” rally gathered a veritable who’s who of top neo-Nazis in the United States, including Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and alt-right leading light Richard Spencer, among others.

They immediately went after Jews in this case, not Muslims.

The white nationalists brandished torches and chanted anti-Semitic and Nazi slogans, including “blood and soil” (an English rendering of the Nazi “blut und boden”) and “Jews will not replace us” — all crafted to cast Jews as foreign interlopers who need to be expunged.

The attendees proudly displayed giant swastikas and wore shirts emblazoned with quotes from Adolf Hitler.

One banner read, “Jews are Satan’s children.”

In response, Trump told reporters, “I think there is blame on both sides.”

“You had some very bad people in that group,” Trump said, referring to the white nationalist groups rallying against removal of a Confederate statue. “But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”

The man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at that white nationalist rally was convicted of first-degree murder and nine other charges.

In January, when the House overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning white nationalism and white supremacy in the wake of public remarks by Rep. Steve King, Trump remained silent.

In February, a “white nationalist” Coast Guard lieutenant in Maryland was accused of planning attacks on members of the media and left-leaning politicians.

There was silence from the White House.

Another coast guard member was suspended last September when he flashed a white power sign during a live TV report.

A police sergeant in Virginia who was assigned to monitor the protests related to Gov. Ralph Northam was suspended after being identified by an anti-fascist group as having an “affinity with white nationalist groups.”

Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc, who drove a vehicle that was a MAGA billboard, sent pipe bombs to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kamala Harris and CNN.

The FBI said he also mailed a pipe bomb to actor Robert DeNiro. a frequent Trump critic.

Last year, Wisconsin students made a Nazi salute while taking a class picture.