Schumer, speaking from the Senate floor, said Trump's comments "drip with racism" and questioned if Republicans weren't commenting "out of embarrassment or agreement."

"Where are you when something this serious, this bigoted, this un-American happens? If you're saying to yourself, 'Well, he got us our big tax credit. Well, he's taking regulations off big corporations. ... We have to go along with this racism,' you are making a deal with the devil," Schumer said.

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Schumer added that people who refuse to denounce Trump's comments are "fellow travelers on the president's racist road, whatever their motivation" and said their responses were "insufficient and un-American."

Trump doubled down on his comments Monday during an event at the White House, denying that he was being racist and expressing no remorse when told that white nationalist groups found common cause with his message.