KEYSTONE, SD—President Donald J Trump pledged to quickly vanquish communism in the United States and send its backers into exile while defending the nation’s history and achievements during a speech Friday night at Mount Rushmore.
Trump, addressing supporters on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, accused critics of undermining the country’s future by attacking its past and its heroes.
“They’re doing something much worse than slandering our past. They’re slandering and attacking our future,” Trump said. “Not gonna let that happen.”
He said American ancestors fought and died in major conflicts not to allow radicals to destroy what they built.
“Our American ancestors did not shed their blood at Concord and Trenton, Gettysburg and Shiloh, Midway and Normandy, just so that a band of thieves, radicals, and lunatics could come in and loot, pillage our nation,” Trump said. “Our heroes died to win, build, and to save, and to build truly a great country, the greatest country ever in the world.”
President Trump then issued a direct vow against communism: “We resolve and swear for all to hear that the citizens of the United States of America will vanquish communism quickly…. We’re not gonna let them take too long or too much of our time as they play their games and send them into exile. We will send them quickly away and we will continue to build our country bigger and better and stronger than ever before. AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A COMMUNIST COUNTRY!”
Trump described the Communist Party as composed of “illegal immigrants, criminals, and everybody that doesn’t want to work.”
“Communism is a loser. It always was, and it is right now. It’s a big loser,” Trump said.
Trump said America is defined by its achievements rather than its mistakes: “In 250 years, the free people of this land have accomplished more with our liberty than any other society has accomplished even in thousands and thousands of years. What our critics will never understand is that America is not the sum of its mistakes. Our mistakes make us human. Our achievements make us American, and nobody has ever had the achievements that we’ve had…. We are the nation that dreamed and created the modern world. We laid the railroads. We raised up those big, beautiful skyscrapers, harnessed electricity, and invented the light bulb, the telephone, the airplane, the assembly line, the television, the microchip, the personal computer, the internet, the GPS, the smartphone, and almost everything else.”
Author: Mario Lotmore
