I checked the transcript and pulled out the lines you need to see.
1. “Let us also extend our heartfelt thanks to our wonderful veterans, police, first responders, and the doctors, nurses, and scientists who work tirelessly to kill the virus.”
2. “I am here as your President to proclaim, before the country and before the world, this monument will never be desecrated.”
Was there some sort of move to tear down Mount Rushmore that I wasn’t aware of or …?
3. “And yet, as we gather here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing that our ancestors fought so hard for, fought for, bled to death to make sure.”
The subject of this speech is the nation threatened by the liberal horde, and Trump hits it HARD. Repeatedly. Also: there is nothing quite as motivating as fear in terms of taking people to the polls. Or so Trump hopes.
4. “Our nation is witnessing a ruthless campaign to erase our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children.”
5. “Angry mobs are trying to tear down the statues of our founders, disfigure our most sacred monuments, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.”
6. “Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing.”
7. “This attack on our freedom, our magnificent freedom, must stop, and it will stop very quickly.”
“Our magnificent freedom”.
8. “We will expose this dangerous movement, protect the children of our nation, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life.”
Again, Trump leans heavily on fear. The left will ruin your children, if you leave it!
9. “In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute loyalty.”
10. “This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.”
Does this feel a little, maybe a little, over the top?
11. “The violent chaos we have seen in the streets and cities run by the Liberal DemocratsrIn all cases, this is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and prejudice in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. “
Make no mistake: this is the language of a complete culture war. And Trump is fueling him because he believes doing so gives him the best chance of winning a second term.
12. “Our children are taught at school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but villains.”
I took a look at my kids’ resume just to verify this and now I can officially say that there is nothing there about hating America.
13. “The radical view of American history is a web of lies.”
14. “General Washington did not claim power, but simply returned to Mount Vernon as a private citizen.”
fifteen. “[Jefferson] He was an architect, inventor, diplomat, academic, founder of one of the best universities in the world and an ardent defender of freedom. “
16. “Lincoln won the Civil War. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He led the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery of all time.”
17. “They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced.”
18. “We will declare the truth in its entirety without apology.”
19. “And we are building the wall.”
20. “We believe in equal opportunities, justice, and equal treatment for citizens of all races, backgrounds, religions, and creeds.”
21. “We want a free and open debate, not codes of discourse and cancel culture.”
22. “His goal is not a better America. His goal is to destroy the United States.”
Under this construction, anyone who opposes Trump is trying to achieve the “end” of the country. OKAY.
23. “For our honor, for the good of our children, for the good of our union, we must protect and preserve our history, our heritage and our great heroes.”
“Our heritage.”
24. “We are the people who dream a spectacular dream – it was called Las Vegas in the Nevada desert – that we built Miami from the Florida swamp and that we carved our heroes in the face of Mount Rushmore.”
As our Founding Fathers always said, “What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas.”
25. “We established the Wild West, we won two world wars, we landed American astronauts on the moon, and one day soon we will plant our flag on Mars.”
26. “No one has done it as we have.”
27. “Centuries from now, our legacy will be the cities we build, the champions we forge, the good we did, and the monuments we create to inspire all of us.”
Wait wait. Do we have a champion forge? How did you not know about this before?
28. “I love your state. I love this country.”
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