(Joe McCarthy would be proud of our bloviating, bloated, belligerent, banal, bastard of a fake president. He was a fascist as well.)
from CBS News
President Trump paid homage to veterans, attacked communism and touted America's "golden age" in his Fourth of July speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Speaking
in Washington, D.C., after severe weather forced a two-hour evacuation
of the National Mall, Mr. Trump's delayed speech mixed politics,
patriotism and history.
The president honored veterans, including
several from World War II, one of the first Black officers to lead a
Special Forces team in combat in Vietnam, and William Harvey Carney, who
escaped slavery to join the Civil war as a Union soldier and later
became the first Black man awarded the Medal of Honor.
While listing historic American military achievements, the president
included two of his own. "You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran, we
wiped it out, wiped out their military," he said, before comparing the
sinking of a Spanish fleet on Manila Bay to this year's attacks on
Iran's navy. The president said the historic event was "much like our
recent victory by sinking the entire Iranian navy, 159 ships to the
bottom of the sea, all done in just a moment's time."
In similar tones to his speech on the eve of the holiday at Mount Rushmore,
Mr. Trump also used this speech to attack communism, in rhetoric which
some have interpreted as an attack on Democrats ahead of the midterm
elections.
"Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields
across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back
here in America," the president said. "It's like a cancer, you got to
cut it out."...
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