Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that President Trump is sending white nationalists a message that he'll ignore their actions.

 Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently "called out President Trump for saying he doesn't see an increase in white nationalism as a threat," reports the New York Post. "White supremacists committed the largest # of extremist killings in 2017," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Monday. "What the President is saying here: 'if you engage in violent acts of white supremacy, I will look the other way.' Understand that this is deliberate. This is why we can't afford to sit on the sidelines." Her comments follow Trump's Friday response to a question asked after the mosque attacks in New Zealand. 
A reporter asked the president if he saw white nationalism as a rising threat around the world, notes The Hill. Trump replied: "I don't really. I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems." The tweet from Ocasio-Cortez  also included a link to the Southern Poverty Law Center and its finding that there was "a nearly 50% increase in white nationalist hate groups between 2017 and 2018."