Better late than . . .

And on the third day he spoke out — this time taking sides

against bigotry and hatred. Yes, Monday brought yet another presidential do-over. Having insisted on Saturday that “many sides” were to blame for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, President Trump finally called out by name “the KKK, neoNazis and white supremacists.”

The six-minute speech followed two full days of a political firestorm — with condemnations from Republicans and Democrats alike — for his bizarre effort to draw a kind of moral equivalency between peaceful protesters and the collection of hate groups they had come to protest.

Finally yesterday Trump said, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America.”

Trump framed his remarks as an “update” on the Justice Department’s investigation of what Attorney General Jeff Sessions had already labeled an act of domestic terrorism. (Although his televised address began with a strange and very Trumpian self-congratulatory introduction about his own jobs-boosting efforts.)

This crime, this exercise in evil that shocked the nation, somehow failed to resonate with the man who is supposed to occupy the world’s largest bully pulpit until 48 hours after the rest of his citizens saw it entirely too clearly.

But finally he said the words: “Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

And he offered his condolences to the families of Heather Heyer and the two Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash while flying over the scene of the demonstrations.

For a man who was quick to put labels on terrorists of the Islamic variety, Trump was remarkably slow to address this incident of domestic terrorism — and remarkably tone deaf to the consequences of failing to do that. That blot remains on his reputation as a leader.