Posted on 10/22/2018 6:03:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Monday declared himself a "nationalist" as he railed against Democrats and "globalists" who put the wellbeing of the world over the country.
At a raucous campaign rally in Houston, Trump warned supporters that Democrats will seek to restore influence to "corrupt, power-hungry globalists."
"You know what a globalist is? A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country so much," Trump said. "And you know what, we can’t have that."
The crowd began booing as Trump moved on to his preferred descriptor.
"You know, they have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist," he continued. "And I say really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I am a nationalist. Use that word."
The crowd broke out into chants of "USA" in response.
Monday's rally marked a rare instance where Trump explicitly described himself as a "nationalist," a label that has drawn criticism and concern from some U.S. and foreign lawmakers.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has frequently alluded to the rise of "phony nationalism" in his many critiques of Trump since the president took office.
The late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made similar remarks in a 2017 speech at the National Constitution Center, where he lamented that the U.S. was relinquishing its leadership role abroad in favor of "some half-baked, spurious nationalism."
The president has long-touted his desire to put "America first," railed against global alliances like NATO and the United Nations and recently threatened to cut aid to Central American countries that he lamented "did nothing for us."
Trump's rhetoric has led to anxiety among world leaders that the U.S. will recede from its role on the global stage.
If they called you a nationalist, you were supposed to recoil and insist you were no such thing.
Never apologize for being a nationalist. Never apologize for loving the United States of America.
Man, I do love our President! Take it, define it, own it. Let the branding begin!
And Trump is white so he’s a white nationalist.
“Never apologize for being a nationalist. Never apologize for loving the United States of America.”
Amen.
If being a nationalist means loving the USA...count me in then.
By jingo, he is a nationalist. Good for him.
(Did you see what I did there?)
Synonym for nationalist: patriot, another word which has fallen into disuse in many places.
They’ve made a concerted effort to equate nationalism with Nazism. Any white person who is nationalist is called a White Nationalist, which is a lie because our nation is the USA, not white people. And of course Nazism is a combination of nationalism and socialism, vs. Marxism which is globalism and socialism. But it’s all just knee jerk word association for the left wing propagandists.
Based!
The Dodgers have never beaten Boston in the World Series. The last time they met was in 1916...before radio broadcasts, let alone TV.
Make Nationalism Great Again!
“Never apologize for being a nationalist. Never apologize for loving the United States of America. “
Amen, and amen!
Trump is a proud to be nationalist, and he happens to be white. I guess that makes him a white nationalist.
“And Trump is white so he’s a white nationalist.”
Don’t be stupid, he’s an American nationalist.
And the opposite of that is the New World Order - W, Jeb, GHWB, Obama, Hillary.....choose wisely, America
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Bingo!
They had it all worked out so we did not have a choice.
Amnesty candidate D or Amnesty candidate R, same result, loss of our country.
Divine Providence moved Donald Trump to run and win.
We better not squander this opportunity.
ALL of the Bush League Republicans MUST be removed from office in the next three election cycles.
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