When asked by CBS News' Catherine Herridge why African Americans are still dying at the hands of law enforcement in the United States, Trump told the interviewer she had asked a "terrible question."

"And so are White people.

Earlier this month, the President called the Black Lives Matter movement a "symbol of hate," days after retweeting and then deleting a video that included a Florida supporter shouting "White power." The White House has maintained that Trump did not hear the supporter say the phrase.

Trump told CBS News that he believes the Confederate flag is "freedom of speech" and compared it to the same freedoms of the Black Lives Matter movement.

"Like it, don't like it -- it's freedom of speech," Trump remarked.

Trump didn't directly answer whether he would approve of his supporters displaying Confederate flags, saying, "Depends on what your definition is but I am comfortable with freedom of speech.

It's very simple."

But he expressed his explicit disapproval of NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate flag from races, a week after the White House press secretary refused to denounce the flag and claimed the President was not "making a judgment call" about the flag in his tweet targeting driver Bubba Wallace.

I just think it's freedom of speech," Trump told CBS News.

"Whether it's Confederate flags or Black Lives Matter of anything else you want to talk about.

It's freedom of speech."

In a separate interview on Tuesday with the conservative website Townhall, Trump defended a St.