In the wake of the attack on two New Zealand mosques, President Donald Trump said he did not see white nationalism as a rising threat around the world, but rather “a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”

Experts, however, say there are a number of indicators that suggest white nationalism and white supremacy — and violence inspired by them — are on the rise, in the U.S. and around the world.

Last Friday, after the horrific news had broken that a racist gunman had killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, a reporter at the White House asked Donald Trump if he believed that white nationalism was a growing threat around the world. “I don’t, really,” Trump responded. “I think it’s a small group of people.”

Leaked chat logs have connected seven current members of the U.S. armed forces to a white nationalist group, according to a HuffPost investigation.

Two Marines, two Army ROTC cadets, an Army physician, a member of the Texas National Guard and one member of the Air Force all belong to an organization called Identity Evropa, which is listed by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group.

Democrats criticize the president for saying views of white nationalism were only held by a ‘small group of people’ with ‘serious problems.’

White House officials and Democrats clashed Sunday over President Trump’s response to the New Zealand mosque massacre days after the president downplayed the role played by white nationalism, saying that a “small group of people” with “serious problems” hold such beliefs.

The gunman in the massacre had called Mr. Trump a “symbol of renewed white identity” in writings before the attack.

White House officials and Democrats clashed Sunday over President Trump’s response to the New Zealand mosque massacre days after the president downplayed the role played by white nationalism, saying that a “small group of people” with “serious problems” hold such beliefs.

Read news reports about the arrest last week of lunatic Coast Guard Officer Christopher Hasson and you might get the impression that he was in some vague sense a supporter of President Trump. But that’s why I read the full court filing instead to find out the truth. Sure enough, there’s not really any evidence he was.

A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant charged with stockpiling weapons and drugs is being described as a "domestic terrorist" who was planning "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday.

House GOP leaders moved Monday to remove Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) from all of his committee assignments following a firestorm over remarks considered racist.