The hole isn’t big enough yet, folks. Trump’s back for a second round on Thursday morning…
xHe added two more tweets to that thread:
Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
...can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also... ...the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!Because no one has a firmer grasp on historical context than Trump, especially when he’s parroting the talking the points of racists and neo-Nazis—as it appears the Daily Stormer site bragged about him doing:
Trump "uses our talking points - that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are next after the Confederate monuments and that they're trying to destroy our history."
Once again, tearing down monuments of people who have no real accomplishments other than to go to war for slavery is not the same thing as tearing down tributes to the Founding Fathers who, while not perfect, actually had accomplishments worthy of note besides owning slaves.
This was Trump’s second round of deep thoughts Thursday morning. In the first, he endeavored to use the term “moral equivalency,” as if he knew what it meant. The problem there is that you have to have some vague sense of morality to understand the turn of phrase.
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