Annie Karni in NYT on Trump's rushmore speech...
The scene at Mount Rushmore was the latest sign of how Mr. Trump appears, by design or default, increasingly disconnected from the intense concern among Americans about the health crisis gripping the country. More than just a partisan rally, it underscored the extent to which Mr. Trump is appealing to a subset of Americans to carry him to a second term by changing the subject and appealing to fear and division.
“Donald Trump is seeking to aggrandize himself and divide our nation at yet another rally,” said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Mr. Biden. “Joe Biden believes the presidency is about serving the American people — whereas Donald Trump only exploits it to serve himself.”
Before the president left for South Dakota on Friday, Trump campaign aides were circulating on social media a doctored image of Mount Rushmore, featuring Mr. Trump’s face carved into the stone next to some of the nation’s most revered presidents.
“Mount Rushmore, improved,” one aide wrote.
(THIS SHIT SHOULD BE PROSECUTED UNDER THE STOLEN VALOR PROVISIONS)
@Madken65 To some native Americans he's deliberately holding his rallies in places where it feels like an intentional provocation. First Tulsa then the Black Hills...
and the irony of Trump's supporters telling Native Americans to go back where they came from...
Classic ignorance
@Madken65 ha!!! did they do that?
i haven't looked because i just needed some rest.
Many, if not most, Natives have fought for this country twice over. Literally. Physically and metaphorically.
This Land is our land, even if we don't possess it in the wasicu way. We are not going anywhere else, and that pertains to all, regardless of how much indian blood they think we should have. Promise.
@Museek IT was in one of the articles I read this morning, can't find it right now, but I will...
@Madken65 i cant even go over on that thread. im trying to not get angry because hes in the black hills... treaty land.. i started to reply and just abandoned it. i know what kinds of people are there. people like this. i just have to remember to not get too upset
@Madken65 see. Some Natives will go out and protest as a reminder but they are surrounded by these short sighted people there. And no one actually listens or changes. It’s self defeating. There’s always a louder group of people who don’t know and don’t care enough. But I know that people will not leave their homeland. You’d be hard pressed to find people who love their ancestral land more.
@Madken65 we will vote and encourage all native Americans to vote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/03/trump-mount-rushmore-347982
@Madken65 and just so you know, the treaty land there that has been disgraced, was decided upon through the wasicu framework- in the Supreme Court but you see how far that has gotten Lakota people.
If the US government goes to other countries to fight on their behalf because it is their ancestral land why won’t it do the same for the people here?
The audacity of Trumpie is unfathomable...
“We will not be tyrannized, we will not be demeaned, and we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people,” Mr. Trump said, referring to his political opponents and their supporters.
And as an American, I will say to Trump...
WE WILL NOT BE TYRANNIZED BY YOU, WE WILL NOT BE DEMEANED BY YOU, AND WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY YOU, YOU BAD, EVIL PERSON.