AFP5 Jul, 2026 08:26 PM3 mins to readA black passenger is surrounded by members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front on the Washington Metro. Photo /Getty ImagesA black passenger is surrounded by members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front on the Washington Metro. Photo /Getty ImagesA top Trump administration official has shrugged off a July 4 parade by masked white supremacists in Washington as an example of “messy” democracy that fell under the banner of constitutionally protected free speech.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNN: “Certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could