as he vows to hunt down rioters with federal law enforcement at Mount Rushmore on the eve of the Fourth of July
- President Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore Friday evening to headline a Fourth of July event
- He blasted the ‘left-wing cultural revolution,’ a knock at the Black Lives Matter protests, and said their goal was to overthrow the American Revolution
- As coronavirus cases have spiked around the country, Trump has focused on culture war issues like Confederate monuments and Black Lives Matter
- His decision to hold back-to-back Fourth of July events in South Dakota and Washington, D.C. has concerned public health officials
- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem isn’t enforcing social distancing at the Friday night speech nor is she making mask-wearing mandatory
By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
President Trump gave a fiery address at Mount Rushmore Friday night claiming that the ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ aimed to overthrow the American Revolution, painting a dark picture of the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked the nation.
On the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, Trump’s message was about us versus them, calling those who didn’t support him ‘bad, evil people.’
He tossed red meat to a packed crowd of supporters – a majority of whom were not wearing masks nor practicing social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 – telling them ‘we will never abolish the police’ and ‘we stand tall we stand proud and we only kneel to almighty God.’
And Trump vowed to deploy federal law enforcement ‘to protect our monuments, arrest the rioters and prosecute offenders to the furthest extent of the law.’
He promised Mount Rushmore, which loomed above him, would never be touched.
‘This monument will never be desecrated, these heroes will never be defaced, their legacy will never ever be destroyed, their achievements will never be forgotten and Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom,’ the president said in the opening minutes.
President Trump painted a dark picture of the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked the nation by saying they were a product of the ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ meant to overthrow the American Revolution