President Donald Trump is still facing significant backlash, including from Republicans, for his response to the violent clashes at a Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally. | Evan Vucci/AP Trump retweets image of him covering up Obama in ‘best eclipse ever’

President Donald Trump on Thursday retweeted a series of images that shows Trump’s photo shifting over to cover a photo of former President Barack Obama, with the caption “THE BEST ECLIPSE EVER!”

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The message, a retweet from a self-described YouTube actor named Jerry Travone, comes after Trump in recent days bounced in tone between speeches — at times calling for unity and condemning bigotry and, as he did Tuesday night during a Phoenix rally, taking a more aggressive stance.


Trump is still facing significant backlash, including from Republicans, for his responses to the violent clashes at a recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president doubled down on his claim that “both sides” were to blame for skirmishes that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured, and he said some of the people who participated in the neo-Nazi protest were “very fine” people.

Trump on Thursday morning also attacked the media for multiple articles that captured his dramatically shifting tone.

“The Fake News is now complaining about my different types of back to back speeches. Well, their was Afghanistan (somber), the big Rally (enthusiastic, dynamic and fun) and the American Legion - V.A. (respectful and strong). To bad the Dems have no one who can change tones!” Trump wrote in two tweets. He later corrected the typos to say “there” and “Too.”