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I went through the transcript — and pulled out the lines you need to see.
1. “Let us also send our deepest thanks to our wonderful veterans, law enforcement, first responders and the doctors, nurses and scientists working 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.”
Uh, was there some sort of movement to tear down Mount Rushmore I was unaware of or….?
3. “And yet, as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure.”
The nation under threat from the liberal horde is the theme of this speech — and Trump hits it HARD. Repeatedly. Also: There is nothing so motivating as fear in terms of driving people to the polls. Or so Trump hopes.
4. “Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.”
5. “Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, 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 liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly.”
“Our magnificent liberty.”
8. “We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life.”
Again, Trump leans heavily on fear. The left is going to ruin your children — if you let it!
9. “In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance.”
10. “This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.”
This feels a little — maybe slightly — overdone?
11. “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.”
Make no mistake: This is the language of a full-out culture war. And Trump is stoking it because he believes doing so gives him the best chance to win a second term.
12. “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.”
I took a peek at the my kids’ curriculum just to double check this so I can now officially say there is nothing in 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.”
15. “[Jefferson] was an architect, an inventor, a diplomat, a scholar, a founder of one of the world’s great universities, and an ardent defender of liberty.”
16. “Lincoln won the Civil War. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He led the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery for all time.”
17. “They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced.”
18. “We will state the truth in full without apology.”
19. “And we are building the wall.”
20. “We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion and creed.”
21. “We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.”
22. “Their goal is not a better America. Their goal is to end America.”
Under this construct, anyone who stands against Trump’s is trying to bring about the “end’ of the country. OK.
23. “For the sake of our honor, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our union, we must protect and preserve our history, our heritage, and our great heroes.”
“Our heritage.”
24. “We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called Las Vegas in the Nevada desert — who built up Miami from the Florida marsh, and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore.”
As our Founding Fathers always said: “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”
25. “We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the moon, and, one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars.”
26. “Nobody has ever done it like we have done it.”
27. “Centuries from now, our legacy will be the cities we built, the champions we forged, the good that we did, and the monuments we created to inspire us all.”
Wait, wait. We have a champion forge? How did I not know about this before?
28. “I love your state. I love this country.”
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