President Donald Trump used the spectacular backdrop of Mount Rushmore and the eve of Independence Day to deliver a speech that cast himself as the defender of American history against a out of con…
and the eve of Independence Day to deliver a speech that cast himself as the defender of American history against a out of control “angry mobs” seeking to denigrate the nation’s founders and pull down statues and monuments.
He also announced that he was signing an executive order to create an outdoor park that will be filled with statues of the “greatest Americans who ever lived.” The speech was not a campaign event, but felt like one. Although the right has long decried “PC” culture, Trump’s latest opening has been to highlight instances in which protesters have taken down or defaced statutes of not just Confederate figures, but others like Ulysses S. Grant. Trump’s political rise in 2016 was in part fueled by the idea that the those on the right were under siege in an era of political correctness.
By choosing to do the speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump also was stoking other historic divisions — the clearing out of Native Americans from the American west.
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