Donald Trump slams 'far-left fascism' at Mt. Rushmore speech for July 4

The United States is “witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, indoctrinate our children,” President Donald Trump said in a speech delivered on Friday evening at Mt. Rushmore, a rock massif that features likenesses of four US presidents. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were carved into the mountain in the 1920s, with each of the heads nearly 18.3 meters (60 feet) high.

“This monument will never be desecrated; these heroes will never be defaced … their achievements will never be forgotten and Mt. Rushmore will stand forever,” Trump said, referencing the recent toppling or destroying statues ~~associated with colonialism and racial discrimination~~.

“This attack on our liberty must be stopped, and it will be stopped,” the president added.

“In our schools, our newsrooms and even our boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism,” he said. “That is why I am deploying federal law enforcement to protect our monuments, arrest the rioters, and prosecute the offenders to the full extent of the law.”

“We will never abolish the police,” he said, in another reference to an idea that came in response to recent instances of police brutality.

Trump also said the US will build a new memorial park, featuring statues of “the greatest Americans who ever lived.” …

Betty Nguyen: "Barack Obama is in South Dakota today. He arrived there last night. Take a look at this. He got a good glimpse of the majestic Mount Rushmore."

Rob Marciano: "Barack Obama is campaigning in South Dakota. That state’s primary is Tuesday. Obama arrived there late last night and got a good look around Mt. Rushmore — it’s quite a sight if you haven’t seen it."

May 12, 2016 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Democratic Presidential Candidate: "This is our country at its very best. What an incredible achievement."

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny (voice-over): "Visiting Mt. Rushmore today, Bernie Sanders taking in the majesty of the moment. This monument to four great American presidents."

Sanders: "Just the accomplishment and the beauty, it really does make one very proud to be an American."

July 3, 2020

Leyla Santiago: "Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans."

“God does not exist. Religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.”

— Mussolini, 1924

“Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does ‘social justice’ mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes; it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labor.”

— Mussolini, 1935

“When the war is over, in the world’s social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth’s riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances. ”

— Mussolini, 1941

Technically, all fascists are reds. The founder of fascism was himself a communist, and his rhetoric while in power as a fascist shows no difference between that of a communist and his own.

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