Over my years of teaching I experienced incidents of administrators and parents telling a kid to "apologize" to Mr or Ms Whomever.  These were "forced apologies" and, IMO, were meaningless.  Courage, character, dignity and, yes, remorse, to have real meaning must come from WITHIN.  Trump's initial comments were extremely weak.  He tried to "have it both ways".....to appease folks while carefully avoiding alienating his supporters from the ault-right, the white supremacist movement and the white nationalist movement.  Only when the public outcry from across the political spectrum reached the point where it could not be ignored, did he make the statement he should have made in the first place.  True courage, dignity and character are extremely important characteristics for leadership.  They are, unfortunately,  IMO, foreign concepts to Mr. Trump. Gary Crum