“Jewish members of President Trump’s administration remained largely silent after Mr. Trump came to the defense of nationalist and right-wing protesters in Charlottesville, who had chanted anti-Semitic slogans and demeaned the president’s Jewish son-in-law,” the New York Times reports.

“President Trump’s relationship with the American business community suffered a major setback as the president was forced to shut down his major business advisory councils after corporate leaders repudiated his comments on the violence in Charlottesville this weekend,” the Washington Post reports.

“A slew of corporate chieftans announced they were resigning from the councils in recent days after they said Trump was slow to condemn white supremacy groups.”

Mike Allen reports the group disbanded itself and the decision was made quickly, according to one executive: “Given the comments of the last several days, no one could continue to be seen as supporting this kind of divisiveness.”

“Members of the president’s staff, stunned and disheartened, said they never expected to hear such a voluble articulation of opinions that the president had long expressed in private,” the New York Times reports.

Jonathan Chait: “This raises the question once again of why they are working for Trump at all. A legitimate public rationale can be made for serving the administration in certain roles. The federal government plays a vital role in domestic and global security, Trump is a dangerous and erratic figure, and somebody needs to try to steer him away from decisions that would provoke unalterable tragedy. That justification covers serving Trump as a foreign-policy adviser, or as homeland security and disaster-response officials.”

“Preventing Trump from doing something damaging is a legitimate and even noble calling. But that admirable motivation can easily mutate into rationalization. Are Trump aides really working to protect the country from him? Or are they working to keep the country from seeing his real nature?”

“He held a press conference today, in I believe the seventh circle of hell.”