Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message

NYT ^ | July 4, 2020 | Annie Karni

[upchuck]

Standing in a packed amphitheater in front of Mount Rushmore for an Independence Day celebration, President Trump delivered a dark and divisive speech on Friday that cast his struggling effort to win a second term as a battle against a “new far-left fascism” seeking to wipe out the nation’s values and history.

With the coronavirus pandemic raging and his campaign faltering in the polls, his appearance amounted to a fiery reboot of his re-election effort, using the holiday and an official presidential address to mount a full-on culture war against a straw-man version of the left that he portrayed as inciting mayhem and moving the country toward totalitarianism.

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children,” Mr. Trump said, addressing a packed crowd of sign-waving supporters, few of whom wore masks. “Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.”

[upchuck]

'Dark and divisive' speech? How can the NYT use descriptive language like that regarding what I thought was President Trump's greatest speech ever.

Too much negativity about a wonder, uplifting speech.

[P.O.E.]

Lefties with the typical chicken-xxxx move. Throw a sucker punch, then when they get punched back go crying “waaah, he hit me”

[ronnie raygun]

They are now at the level of toilet paper, at least toilet paper has a function and is essential, wanted and needed

[Vision]

The divisiveness of the America hating NYT’s never stops.

[RayChuang88]

The anti-Trump sentiment at the New York Times has gone past the point of MAD magazine parody. 🤦🏻‍♂️😑🙄

[rfp1234]

Pathetic losers. Lower than the slime molds that infest the sewers of their decaying city.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The NYT has gone from the paper of record to the paper of propaganda. Nobody but fellow fringe lunatics pays attention to it any more.

[Zhang Fei]

Cet animal est très méchant,
Quand on l’attaque il se défend.

[Highest Authority]

The NYT has finally replaced toilet paper.

[American Infidel]

addressing a packed crowd of sign-waving supporters, few of whom wore masks.

This is what the nyt chose to point out in describing the crowd. No bias here /s.

I am surprised they didn't mention something along the lines of "... most of whom were white."

[JohnnyP]

Before Trump arrived, the band played the theme song for each military organization.

As they were playing Anchors Away, I thought of the Mad Magazine issue where they did a parody of fight songs for schools that were too small to have real sports teams.

I had to look it up, but here it is:

To the tune of “Anchors Aweigh” - parody songs about games and sports

Bishops away my lads, Bishops away
Move up your Knights and Pawns and
Keep your Queen in play-ay-ay-ay
Castle your King my lad
Don’t hesitate
Oops, I guess I told you wrong
He’s got you there, he’s got you there:
Checkmate

They had one for Monopoly, sung to the tune of From the Halls of Montezuma:

From the slums of Baltic Avenue,
To the Boardwalk and Park Place,
We will buy up all the properties,
Build hotels on every space.
We will drive our folks to bankruptcy,
If they fail to pay our price,
But we cannot even start the game,
Until someone finds the dice!

[nonsporting]

Trump identified the enemies of the republic. The NYT confirms its membership in that group.

[Right_in_Virginia]

“America is the land of heroes” is too dark for the NYT.

Idiots.

[turfmann]

Dark? Well, the sun had gone down so technically the NYT was correct. Only a person who is living in this country but has no appreciation for its founding political philosophies would find Trump’s speech divisive. And personally, those that hold those views should have the courage of their convictions and get the (bleep) out of our beautiful country. They are no longer welcome.

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

Maybe General Washington should have let the British destroy New York City. Then gave back the land to the natives as a peace offering.

[Boomer One]

The fact that the author addresses President Trump as Mr. Trump tells me just about all I need to know about the article. Further on she recites MSNBC and other leftist media talking points sandwiched between words designed to show us how educated she is. Obviously the NYT is not interested in reporting as much as shaping the news. Perhaps they will awaken one day to discover they are the cause of most divisiveness in this country but I doubt it.

[SkyPilot]

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children,”

I completed my undergraduate degree in the 1980's, when the airwaves and MTV were broadcasting the beautiful music of Synchronicity by The Police, Ronald Reagan was President, and CNN was actually a real news network.

Back then, there were radicals on my college campus, but they were the fringe few. A black fraternity would march around campus in single file, with their necks chained together and wearing Black Panther garb, but even the other black students mocked them.

I collected a couple of master degrees over the years, and I witnessed universities becoming more and more hostile to Christianity, western civilization, men, heterosexuality, and to reason itself.

Just a couple of years ago, I completed another degree at a major university. I had to take a mandatory "Black Studies" course. I had no choice.

What I witnessed in that class was depressing and outrageous. The "professor" was certifiably insane. His "curriculum" consisted of hatred, lies, and the most outlandish conspiracy nut job claptrap (such as the ancient Egyptians were all black Africans, and they invented EVERYTHING from furniture to calculus, but it was all "stolen" by white European rapists).

The black (and most white) students in the class were in rapture. The ate it up like animals at a zoo. They quoted Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" like it was Holy Scripture. We watched a ridiculous and hateful propaganda film called "Out of Darkness" by someone who called himself Amadeuz Christ. It would have been laughable had it not been so inflammatory and hateful.

I rhetorically fought back, and the "professor" and his cult didn't like it one bit. I poked holes in their web with ease, but that only made them more shrill and angry, like a pack of wolves. I came under attack every class, and it was a struggle to maintain my composure (but I did).

I came to this conclusion: there would be a price to be paid in our nation for allowing this type of blatant, hateful propaganda to flow unrestricted in our colleges and universities. This wasn't "harmless", and it certainly wasn't "education." In the same way that Joseph Goebbels, Ernst Röhm, Rudolf Hess, Reinhard Heydrich, Hermann Göring, and Adolph Hitler were able to poison the souls of the German people during the 1930s, the bitter poison that our colleges and universities are pouring into the minds of our young people will destroy the soul of our nation.

The sad part about this is that is far too late to pull back the reigns. The proverbial train has left the station. Perhaps, if people had acted years ago to stop the indoctrination factory that teaches black supremacy, hatred of whites, sexual perversion, and Marxism - the tide could have turned back to reason, and to good.

But no one did.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

... a “new far-left fascism” seeking to wipe out the nation’s values and history...

NYT: You cannot believe what you see with your own eyes. Believe what we tell you to believe. And eat your peas.

[mulligan]

The no news ever New York Times is a disgrace to America. Trash, lies and evil is its bedrock. It will have a special place in hell.

[jmacusa]

Mais oui, d’accord!