Black GOPer gives Trump race lecture

PRESIDENT TRUMP got a history lesson Wednesday that put his inflammatory reaction to violence at a white nationalist rally into perspective, according to Sen. Tim Scott.

Scott, the Senate’s lone black Republican, sat down with Trump a month after saying the President’s “moral authority” was “compromised.” The President faced intense bipartisan backlash after blaming “many sides” for the violence at a deadly Charlottesville, Va., protest attended by Klansmen, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.

The Oval Office sit-down gave the senator from South Carolina a chance to confront and educate Trump.

“We had three or four centuries of rape, murder and death brought at the hands of the (Ku Klux Klan) and those who believe in a superior race,” Scott told reporters later. “I wanted to make sure we were clear on the delineation between who’s on which side in the history of the nation.”

The President said he got the point, Scott said.

Shortly after the meeting, the White House sent out a photo of the pair, misspelling Scott’s name in the caption, referring to him as “Sen. Tom Scott.”