WASHINGTON – On the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump delivered a speech on Mount Rushmore on Friday to condemn protesters to circulate through the country for attacking monuments while declaring that he would sign an executive order to create a “National Garden of American Heroes.”
“Our nation is witnessing a cruel crusade to erase our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children,” Trump told a crowd of 7,000 people in front of the South Dakota National Monument.
“Angry mobs tear down the statues of our founders, disfigure our highest sacred monuments, and unleash a wave of violent crimes in our cities.”
Trump’s statements came when circular federal statues of the land were kidnapped by protesters after the death of George Floyd, a minneapolis black man who died when a white police officer immobilized him with one knee in his neck for nine minutes. . .
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Statues of ancient figures, adding to citizens Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Robert E. Lee and Christopher Columbus were attacked in cities across the country.
The president said he would identify a “National Garden of American Heroes,” which he described as a “great park that would present statues of the largest Americans who have ever lived.”
The order, issued through the White House Friday night, said the park would feature statues that would add several ancient figures of U.S. citizens such as Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham. Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubguy and others.
An organization operating under the Minischeck outside the Interior will determine the location of the park, according to the ordinance. It is expected to be open to the public in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.
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Late last month, Trump signed an executive order to allow offenders to be prosecuted to the fullest imaginable under the Veterans Monument Preservation Act, which stipulates that the large block user who destroys or destroys a monument, monument or statue is also sentenced to up to ten years in prison. Prison. The ordinance also warns the government of national and local law enforcement that they may also lose federal aid if they do not protect those monuments.
The president delivered his speech 7,500 other Americans in the shadow of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, whose classified ads are recorded on Mount Rushmore. Washington and Jefferson owned slaves.
“This monument will never be desecrated, those heroes will never be degraded, their legacy will never be destroyed, their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will be an eternal tribute to our ancestors and our freedom,” Trump said.
The event, announced as an official White House event, echoes the rhetoric of the president’s crusade, highlighting the social and racial divisions circulating around the country.
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“Make no mistake, this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American revolution,” Trump said.
“They think the other Americans are weak, moderate, and submissive. But no, the other Americans are strong and proud, and they don’t allow our country and all its values, culture and culture to be wiped out of them,” he said. .
Prior to Trump’s arrival, police used pepconsistent with spray and arrested protesters for blocking a road leading to the monument. Protesters argue that the land on which the monument is located, Black Hills, was seized from Lakota Sioux through the government in the 19th century and that Trump’s leadership is opposed to the interests of Native Americans and other minority groups.
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“Today is a proud day to be Lakota,” said Nick Tilsen of the NDN Collective. “We closed Mount Rushmore. We closed this position for 3 hours and did it the right way. Our ancestors gave us this strength.
The fireworks that followed Trump’s speech are the first at Mount Rushmore in more than a decade after a ban imposed for environmental reasons. Environmentalists say fireworks can also trigger wildfires in dry scrub in nearby forests. However, local officials said the threat is low.
Others expressed concern about the possible spread of coronavirus. South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem said this week that social estrangement is not implemented in some of the thousands of Americans expected.
Before the president took the stage, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s friend Jr., who was a substitute for the high-point crusade, had tested positive for COVID-1 on the Friday before the event, according to Sergio Gor, leader of the Trump Victory Finance committee.
Gor said Guilfoyle “is fine and would be re-evaluated, the diagnosis is of the right type as it is asymptomatic.” He added that he will cancel the upcoming parties and that Donald Trump Jr had tested negative, but that it would also be taken as a precaution.
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Dr. Anthobig apple Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned beyond this week that new coronavirus infections can also occur up to 100,000 the next day if the country does not report its outbreak of cases.
Trump’s speech on Mount Rushmore begins a holiday weekend in honor of the founding of the United States. The president is scheduled to attend the Once-a-year White House fireworks that deliver a speech Saturday.
Contribution: Makenzie Huber and Erin Bormett, he of Sioux Falls Argus