I doubt there was anything that Trump could have said that wouldn't have been picked apart by the MSM.  OTOH,  his "fine people" comment was weird.  There were probably a few people who didn't want the statue to come down who qualify as "fine",  and there were certainly a few who did who are likewise "fine."  But the KKK, Neo-Nazis and Antifa are all thugs, nothing fine about them.  A pox on both their houses.