I get the impression that the president did not do very well in his history class—either he wasn’t paying attention or some of these ideas and facts were over his head or not to his liking. I wish we had an educated president who knew how to refer to real life events in American history. For example, he might start off a speech with:
“You must remember that pulling down statues is as American as apple pie. That’s how the American Revolution started when you come to think about it. Jefferson, I think it was, wrote the Declaration of Independence. We are a free people, right? We are independent of the control of other countries like England, right? That was Jefferson. He told the English king to go to hell, not in those exact words but you get the idea, then they read those words to New Yorkers (where I am from) and when they heard those words they got excited, I mean the crowd got worked up and they got ropes and axes and power saws and they went to clubbing that statue of King George III and they tied on ropes and pulled the whole thing down, kerplunk.”
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a president who knew something more of the ideas involved in such a dramatic and defiant act? Maybe he would say:
“The colonists were fighting for their freedom and their independence. They were fighting for self-government, the right to rule themselves. They were fighting for a chance to make America the land of opportunity where a person has a fair chance to get ahead. In the same way, black people in the southern states had to fight for their freedom, too. New Yorkers pulled down that statue of King George III because it was an odious symbol of royal authority and all that crap that comes with tyranny.
“Protesters today feel the same way about the statues put up to remember the tyranny of slavery in the South. While the Founding Fathers complained about the awful tyranny of King George III, chances are none of them experienced the tyranny of chains and whips, as far as I know, and that’s a far worse tyranny, isn’t it? Why shouldn’t Americans pull down these racist memorials put up to honor these slave-owners with their whips and chains? These statues are as repugnant and odious to us as ever the statue of King George III was.
“And I, the Donald, promise to make an extra effort to remember that if I ever become a king with my own statue, it is very likely that many people, many people on both sides of New York, the real New Yorkers and the other New Yorkers, in the other states, I mean everybody, will get together and pull down my statue too because when you think about it, when you think about how New Yorkers knocked down the statue of King George III, pow! Like that, like one big punch, then you know pulling down a statue of me is as American as apple pie and as old as the Revolution itself!”
I wish we had a president who could talk to us like that about American history, who knew that sometimes great struggles began with a moment as symbolic as tearing down a statue boasting of somebody or something that has outlived its time. If King Donald is ever tempted to commission a statue of himself (like that $600,000 painting) you can be sure it will get torn down faster than you can say King George the Third . . . and for the exact same reason!
The American people have not signed over to anybody a proxy where they gave away their freedom to the likes of The Donald and his little criminal cabal of gangsters and thugs, where when of them gets arrested-and-convicted he pardons them!
Loyalty among crooks—who woulda thunk it?
Gangster life-style all the way!!! .4q\�8���
