Trump Friday night at Rushmore

Looked like a good crowd. Nobody has said a word about its size so it probably was.

So, yes, a ridiculously bad example and a sure bet to be a Super Spreader.

Trump, in fiery Mount Rushmore address, decries rise of 'far-left fascism,' calls on Americans to rise up

A "fiery" restatement of his by now completely familiar position on public honors, identical to Biden's on everything but public honors for the Confederacy or its leaders.

As for the protesters, they are the familiar "left wing mobs" who want to "end America".

I recall that during the antiwar demonstrations of the Vietnam era the radicalism and revolution mongering of the organizers, leaders, and most of the speakers was not at all shared by most of the demonstrators (I was one of them).

Speaking after the legendary U.S. Navy Blue Angels roared overhead, President Trump ushered in the July 4th weekend Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota with a full-throated condemnation of "far-left fascism" and a defense of "Judeo-Christian principles."

"This monument will never be desecrated," Trump declared to cheers and applause. 

"These heroes will never be defaced. Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten. And Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom."

The president asserted that recent attacks on the nation's monuments, alongside "cancel culture" and the rise of the Marxist ideology of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, were symptoms of a "left-wing cultural revolution" that was threatening to "overthrow the American Revolution." 

BLM explicitly advocates the destruction of the "nuclear family structure," which Trump said was in fact the "bedrock of American life."

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Hours before he spoke, CNN, echoing The New York Times, derided Mount Rushmore as a monument to slaveholders on stolen native lands. 

The New York Times' newsroom also sits on land taken from natives; and several CNN reporters previously praised Mount Rushmore as recently as 2016.

“This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore," Trump said, referring to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Trump, who separately praised police officers, also announced plans  to create "a new monument to the giants of our past."

He said he would sign an executive order to establish a national garden of American heroes -- a "vast outdoor park" to feature the statues of the "greatest Americans to ever live"