Posted on 05/05/2017 6:31:11 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler
President Trump is doing away with the White House Cinco de Mayo celebration, a 16-year-old tradition, Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion reported Wednesday.
Instead of a White House celebration this year, one headlined by Vice President Pence will be held at a to-be-determined location and with a reduced guest list, the report said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment and has not issued an official announcement of any planned events for the holiday.
Both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama used Cinco de Mayo to connect with the Hispanic community — inviting Cabinet members, Latino celebrities and Mexican Embassy officials to the White House — and to promote immigration reform.
Last year, Obama had 500 guests, food catered by San Antonio celebrity chef Johnny Hernandez and music by Mexican pop band Mana.
Trump, then the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, famously celebrated Cinco de Mayo last year by tweeting a picture of himself with a taco bowl from Trump Grill in New York City, with a caption reading: “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”
Democrats and Latinos bashed Trump's taco bowl tweet, but then-Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus defended Trump's efforts at Hispanic outreach.
"Honestly, he's trying, and I'll tell you what — I honestly think he understands that building, unifying and growing the party is the only way we are going to win," Priebus, now Trump's White House chief of staff, said the day after the tweet.
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the May 5, 1862, Battle of Puebla, in which Mexican forces routed an invading French army. The holiday is observed but not celebrated in Mexico, but it's taken on a symbolic status for Mexican-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
Good!
I have my original copy of that book (received as a child) AND a copy of Song of the South movie.
And Bush the Lesser's incompetence cost the lives of countless thousands in a war with no purpose, no goal, and no clear strategy. And which also destabilized the region and brought about a breeding ground for ISIS.
Carter was an incompetent, bumbling idiot. GWB was an incompetent, bumbling idiot who committed actual incalculable damage. And that's without bringing up No Child Left Behind, stimulus payments out of the public treasury, bailouts, Homeland Security and the TSA, taking us closer to socialized medicine...
Why on earth is this a cause for celebration?
Marketing gimmick dreamed up by the Madison Avenue ad agency for an alcohol importer.
Drinko de Mayo is like Bunker Hill Day in Boston. Sure we didn’t win. But Suffolk County municipal employees get a day off to get flabbergasted. May I suggest Sully’s Tap in Thompson Square in Charlestown. You can see the bleeping monument from a window seat....
You simply must include the most politically incorrect of all Warner Brothers Cartoon, The Oily American.
“Me smell Mohican burning. Wait, Me last Mohican. Must be MEEEE.”
“Your thomashawk suh”
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bobkq
Not from the White House do the Irish get attention. Does the White House have a Saint Patrick’s Day special event or notice? Do not think so
Or even better, diez y seis de septiembre.
Me either. I said i will celebrate every time 5 million illegals get the boot.
Mexicans everywhere haven’t got a clue as to what Cinco de Quatro as bathhouse barry calls it is about, except that it’s another excuse to get drunk on their asses. To be fair that’s exactly what many Americans think the day is about too!
It should be celebrated. In Mexico. Not here.
Please disregard my post to you. I meant if for someone else. Thanks.
Cinco de Quanza
What kind of country are you if you are taken over by the French?
Maybe we should be celebrating Cinco De May more like this:
Whereas Batalla de Puebla (Cinco De Mayo, 1862) was inconsequential to its eventual fall to the French and to the ultimate fall of Mexico.
And whereas “the Congress of the United States are unwilling, by silence, to leave the nations of the world under the impression that they are indifferent spectators of the deplorable events now transpiring in the Republic of Mexico; and they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge a monarchical government, erected on the ruins of any republican government in America, under the auspices of any European power.”
And whereas citizens of the United States invested “$16-million and $18-million dollars for the purchase of American war material” towards the Mexican cause.
And U.S. “General Herman Sturm acted as an agent to deliver guns and ammunition to the Mexican Republic.”
And U.S. “General Philip Sheridan
[9TH PRESIDENT OF THE NRA]
was in charge of transferring additional supplies and weapons...including some 30,000 rifles directly from the Baton Rouge Arsenal in Louisiana.”
And whereas U.S. President (R) Seward
[survivor of a democrat assassination attempt coordinated simultaneously to Lincoln’s]
“shifted American policy from thinly veiled sympathy to the republican government of Juárez to open threat of war to induce a French withdrawal” and “invoked the Monroe Doctrine”
And whereas Napoleon III consequently chose to preserve Franco-American relations over his Mexican monarchy ambitions and “announced the withdrawal of French forces.”
All citizens of the United States of America are hereby given cause to celebrate Cinco de Mayo as a victory of North America against all foreign invasions of their republics thanks to the strength and resolve of the United States of America and its citizens. Let this day hereby be celebrated by the flying of the American Flag, the purchase of arms and ammunition for personal and national defense, promotion of the 2nd Amendment, and salutes to the values of the National Rifle Association, which were all truly indispensable in liberating Mexico from a despotic foreign monarchy.
The international socialists will complain it is bigoted for the President of the United States not to celebrate a foreign independence day.
A fraternity was recently told it was racist to hold “Cinco de Drinko”, for whites to use the Mexican holiday as an excuse to drink.
victorioso!
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