Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is warning President Trump to “quit stepping on himself,” raising concerns about how Trump's remarks about violence at the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally overshadowed his discussion of infrastructure.

“The last thing he’s got to do, and I'm being very candid here, is he’s got to quit stepping on himself. He had a very good infrastructure press conference the other day, and then he stepped on it, blew it, guaranteed that it wouldn't get covered,” Gingrich said on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning.

“That's like a quarterback who goes out and throws the ball down for the other side and fumbles on the first play of every possession,” he added.

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Gingrich, a top surrogate for the Trump campaign, said Trump had to make a "few course corrections" to get his presidency back on track.

"He’s got to be more disciplined and he’s got to work as part of a team, and then I think he generally could work out to be a remarkably good president,” Gingrich said.

Trump held a press conference Tuesday to make an announcement on infrastructure, but the event quickly devolved into a tense back-and-forth with reporters over his comments blaming “many sides” for the violence in Charlottesville, where one anti-racist protester died and more than a dozen others were injured when a man with alleged white supremacist ties plowed his car into a crowd.

Trump doubled down on his comments at the conference, saying “both sides” were to blame for the violence at the white supremacist rally.

“What about the alt-left that came charging at the — as you say, the alt-right?” Trump said. “Do they have any semblance of guilt? What about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I am concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.”