LAST night, from the iconic Mount Rushmore, President Trump marked America’s 250th anniversary, saying the men immortalised there – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln – ‘could only have been made in America’.
One utterance after another marking the ingredients of American liberty and American exceptionalism, something to celebrate, to be proud of, and to fight for. ‘The identity of a nation,’ he said, ‘is the destiny of a nation.’ How true!
It has been ‘forged on a uniquely American character . . . Americans did not bow down before Kings or Governments, only before Almighty God’.
There is, he said ,no American freedom without American culture and he recommitted to the Second Amendment to the US Constitution which reads: ‘A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’
He promised ‘to give our country its identity back’. ‘You have to love our country,’ he said, commenting on the ‘resurgence of communist menace in our land – a mortal threat to our country’. He went on: ‘You can be a communist or a patriot . . . those who slander our past attack our future.’
It was upbeat and a call to action. On the side of right. A speech we have not heard the like of here for years and years – certainly not since Margaret Thatcher.
You can watch it here.
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