U.S. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend South Dakota’s U.S. Independence Day Mount Rushmore f…Read More
WASHINGTON: A divided United States ushered in dark and dismal Fourth of July fourth Independence Day with its President
Donald Trump
warning that a “left-wing cultural revolution” is aiming to rewrite the country’s history and erase its heritage, even as he ignored the nationwide racial justice protests and a runaway pandemic.
Delivering what was widely seen as a divisive harangue against the backdrop of
Mount Rushmore
, a Presidential memorial that many Native Americans say is a racist monument built on sacred land stolen from them, Trump raged that “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,” while asserting “the American people will not allow our country and all of its values, history, and culture to be taken from them.”
Claiming America is witnessing “a me