Trump’s Dark and Divisive Diatribes Defile Independence Day

It’s the 4th of July and Donald Trump has taken this solemn occasion to produce the sequel to his inaugural address: “American Carnage.” This follow up can be called “American Mayhem,” because that’s the dominant narrative that Trump exuded throughout the speech. It was a spasm of hostility and alienation on a day that is meant to embrace unity. If anything it affirmed speculation as to Trump’s obvious and worsening mental infirmity.

Donald Trump Hugs Flag

The event should never have been held in the first place. It required people to defy all of the guidance of health experts to maintain physical distance and wear face masks. And this defiance occurred while the COVID-19 pandemic was spiking to record highs. Even close associates of Trump have recently tested positive for the coronavirus, including Don Jr’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle (who is also a Trump campaign official and former Fox News shill).

None of that, however, was sufficient to dissuade Trump from going forward with his ego-stroking cult rally. His selfish and narcissistic needs outweigh the welfare of the American people. And this is not merely a personal choice by those who wished to attend the event, because they will return to their homes and spread the virus in those communities to people who didn’t want anything to do with Trump’s festival of bombast.

The speech itself was purposefully composed to create more conflict and animosity within the American family. Trump focused heavily on his defense of Confederate traitors and the monuments erected to undeservedly honor them. It comprised the majority of his remarks, while the surging pandemic was reduced to a few words at the outset, then forgotten. Trump’s harangue took shape with this heinous rant:

“The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal Democrats in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains.”

First of all, the protests that spontaneously erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by police were overwhelmingly peaceful, and the participants included a broad array of America’s populace. And it’s simply a flagrant lie to say that these demonstrations were limited to “cities that are run by liberal Democrats.” They took place in over 250 cities, including many with Republican mayors (i.e. San Diego, Jacksonville, Fort Worth, Omaha, Miami, and many more). In fact, estimates show that up to 26 million people joined this Black Lives Matter movement, making it the largest in American history.

Trump’s wild and baseless assertions about “indoctrination” in education and journalism are rehashes of his relentless whining about Americans having the audacity to engage in independent thought that doesn’t idolize him. As usual, Trump offered no evidence of his preposterous claim that “children are taught in school to hate their own country.” Although, he did rattle on about the actual villains of the Confederacy that he has taken into his withered heart. But he was just getting started.

“In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not going to happen to us. Make no mistake. This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.”

Once again, Trump is alleging disciplinary measures that are simply fabrications from his own diseased imagination. If anything, it’s the Trump administration that engages in that punitive behavior. He has literally conducted purges of Justice Department attorneys, inspectors general, and even his own personal picks for his top White House aides, when they were less than totally obedient. What’s more, Trump’s references to “far-left fascism” and “left-wing cultural revolution” are not only bizarre distortions of reality, they are unabashedly partisan attacks during what is supposed to be a non-partisan event.

If Trump wants to turn this into another campaign rally, then he, not the American people, should be paying for it. He is using taxpayer dollars to advance his political aspirations (pathetic as they are). It’s en encouraging sign that the only cable news network that carried Trump’s speech live was, of course, Fox News. So Trump is getting less exposure than he surely must have been hoping for.

It’s notable that Trump has been avoiding the media lately. In the past he would use these trips to hold impromptu “Chopper Talks” on the lawn of the White House, or going to and from these affairs. But in the wake of the surging pandemic, civil unrest, and news of his betrayal of American soldiers by permitting Russia to put bounties on their heads without repercussions, Trump is apparently afraid to face questions from the press. And while it’s a relief to have a respite from his incoherent bellowing, he still needs to be held accountable to the people.

UPDATE: On July 4th Trump doubled down on his racism and hostility in a speech in Washington, D.C. He made brazenly partisan attacks on what he called the “radical left,” comparing them to Nazis and terrorists. So in one broad sweep he’s trivializing the acts of history’s actual genocidal murderers, while offending the millions of Americans who took to the streets last month, and the Democratic patriots who support them.

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6 thoughts on “Trump’s Dark and Divisive Diatribes Defile Independence Day

  1. Ya see, Trump is all about himself and nothing else…he hugs the flag to profess patriotism…but only since he is president, before when Obama was our president, he never got near the flag, much less hug one.

    The USA is a Democracy in a Republic, therefore it hold ethical and moral standards that all are equal in the justice, opportunities and freedoms the nation offers. Unfortunately that has not been the case and is currently being acerbated by Trump in his hate speeches and actions.

    July the 4th is a day meant to express unity…Trump just promoted division.

    Sorry Trump, but freedom in a nation is not a partial premise…

  2. Perhaps we should start considering how the ReichLiars would do Keen Berning’s The War Civil based on what Their Beloved God said yesterday….

    My dearest Martha.
    We just arrived at Auntie Em. General Ulysseius has been very nice to us. We will be crossing the Spaghetti’s Burg River by tomorrow night. We’re all looking forward to the final battle with General Christopher Lee.

    Or maybe we’ll just stick with Crow T Robot’s version.

  3. I’m comforted by the thought that all those truly patriotic citizens who took peacefully to their streets to demonstrate against racism & injustice will hear & read Trumpler’s words demonising them & they will know that he’s lying, yet again, in order to spin reality 180 degrees from the truth. None of those Americans will vote for him, nor will any of their friends or families, nor anyone who saw those demonstrations for what they were: real
    Americans, worried sick about what’s become of their great nation under this illegitimate president & his corrupt regime. They came out in their hundreds of thousands in the midst of a killer pandemic, just as they’ll come out in their millions in November, no matter how many obstacles to voting the crooked Republicans strew in their path.

  4. Maybe he should have invited the person he fell in love with? I know Melania was there. Not her silly rabbits, his true love NK dictator Kim Jung Un. His kind of guy!

  5. LOL….I thought you meant Ivanka.
    Was surprised she wasn’t there. Usually right by his side. Gee, hope she doesn’t have the virus! She’d recover fine ~ has best medical care we can buy them, all of them.

  6. Time to re read Man without. A Country, Constitution, The Childrens Story.

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