Posted on 07/04/2020 8:11:38 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Faced with a public health crisis spiraling further out of control as a result of his own governing failures, a maskless President Donald Trump ranted against the “left-wing mob,” “far-left fascism” and “cancel culture” in a disjointed speech delivered at an Independence Day celebration held at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Friday night.
“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to defame our history,” Trump told a cheering crowd, most of whom also appeared to not be wearing masks.
“Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders ... and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities,” he added.
Trump was referring to protesters who, as part of a national uprising for racial justice, have defaced and removed Confederate monuments and symbols.
He vowed to crack down on “this attack on our liberty” by enforcing a federal law to “arrest the rioters,” reiterating his earlier promise to imprison anyone who vandalizes such monuments for up to 10 years.
“There is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance,” he said. “This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American revolution.”
Yet, facial coverings, which can help mitigate the spread of the disease were a rare sight at the event. None of Trump’s entourage, including First Lady Melania Trump and his son Eric Trump, were seen wearing a mask.
Earlier on Friday, dozens of protesters, most of them Native Americans, blocked a main road leading to Mount Rushmore. About 15 of them were arrested after refusing to heed police warnings to disperse.
Demonstrators, holding signs that read “This Is Stolen Land” and “Protect SoDak’s First People,” said they were insulted by Trump’s decision to hold the celebratory event at the massive sculpture, which was erected in the Black Hills on land taken from the Lakota people.
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The New York Times:
President Trump delivered a dark and divisive speech at Mount Rushmore, leaning into the culture wars and barely mentioning the pandemic.
Down in the polls and failing to control a raging pandemic, the president cast himself as waging battle against a “new far-left fascism” that imperils American values and seeks to erase history.
I'd really really love to hear the author's explanation as to why the Hans Christian Anderson mermaid is tagged 'racist fish' and why the Portland elk statue was burned.
If they can't fit either of those things in the narrative of 'Confederate monuments and symbols', then they should get zotted with a taser every time they even contemplate using that phrase.
If I were Verizon, I would not admit that.
She looks like the kind of cat that will claw her way up to the higher reaches “wokeness” by having a big bank account to prove just how woke she is over the masses as they scramble below her in complete obscurity and socialist poverty.
That is the “woke” American Dream.
How is it then that immigrants from 1620 on become responsible for these failings? Were these immigrants expected to assimilate into Native American culture? What would that have looked like?
250 have supposedly died of Covid in the last 24 hours. 250 out of 350 million, what crisis?
TED CRUZ to CNN:
Your network is literally arguing to tear down Mount Rushmore.
And claiming that murderous, raping anarchists are a peaceful “street festival.”
Your network is literally arguing to tear down Mount Rushmore.
And claiming that murderous, raping anarchists are a peaceful “street festival.”
More WINNING!
American Indians did not have the wheel.
That was one if the most uplifting speeches I have heard. Tops tear down the wall.
MSM kisses Soros behind daily.
Nobody owned that land when the settlers arrived. The indians were nomads. They’d stay in a place until they’d killed off all the game animals, and then move on. The settlers claimed a piece of land, put down roots, enclosed a spring or dug a well, built a home and barn, tilled the soil, grew crops, kept livestock. In civilized areas, improving of a parcel of land confers ownership. Wm. Penn gave settlers 50 acres. All they had to do was improve it with buildings, and work it.
Ha!
And in many cases they went to war with each other and ran each other off the land.
But in any event, the United States certainly did not erect an entire mountain on that spot as the article suggests.
This is what fake news looks like. No fair minded person listening would have come away with that message.
Wm Penn was one of the few that worked out treaties with the Indians before lands were settled by migrant dreamers
Apparently not wearing a face diaper makes you a racist. Or something.
THE RIOTERS ARE MULTIRACIAL, IDIOT DOMINIQUE.
You dolts see racism in your morning coffee.
Another young brainwashed Skull full of mush
they don’t have the life experiences to judge Donald Trump and his supporters grow up little one you have so much to learn
By the way Try being an independent thinker for once
If protesters all crowded together take masks off just to speak clearly, then what’s wrong with the president doing it in open outdoor air?
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