Tim Scott, the only Black Republican Senator, on Wednesday said that President Donald Trump should take back the remarks he made about the White Supremacist group ‘Proud Boys’. Instead of condemning, the President had asked the far-right group to “stand back and stand by.”

“I think he misspoke in response to Chris Wallace’s comment. … I think he misspoke, I think he should correct it. If he doesn’t correct it, I guess he didn’t misspeak,” Scott told ABC news.

While the remarks that Trump made was condemned by Democrats, the group was seen celebrating the moment. According to a report in The Hill, the group’s Telegram account took Trump’s remarks as an order. “Standing down and standing by sir,” the account wrote.

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Trump’s campaign team also struggled to explain the remark. “He wants them to get out of the way. He wants them to not do the things they say they want to do. This is a reprehensible group,” said Hogan Gidley, press secretary of Trump campaign.

Meanwhile, White House communications director Alyssa Farah said that there is nothing to clarify as Trump asked them to “stand down.”

Found by the co-founder of VICE Media Gavin McInnes in the midst of the 2016 election, the Proud Boys are known for their white nationalist pandering, blatant anti-Muslim rhetoric and close ties with more publicly violent extremists.