Iâm almost as concerned with the âprays like usâ part.
Yea that too.
You know when an eight-year-old reads from a prepared text and itâs cute yet kinda painful? You grin through it and think to yourself, âJust get to the end of the sentence for the love of God so we can applaud and move on with our livesâŚ.AAARRGGHHH!!!â Well, when Donald Trump reads from a prepared statement, subtract the cute and multiply the pain by 25. Thatâs what we got yesterday as Trump hijacked the capitalâs annual Independence Day celebration in a desperate attempt to sponge off some of the militaryâs popularity.
If you ever wondered what itâd sound like to hear a middle-school history report cobbled together from Wikipedia pages, you found out yesterday. At least Cliff Notes might get you a D, but Trump Notes will set you back a grade. And sure, it costs us about $92 million, but the one saving grace during Trumpâs speech was military jets flying overhead on cue.
And, Trump still messed it up. The Declaration of Independence wasnât signed on July 4th. British General Cornwallis was of London, not Yorktown (he was defeated at Yorktown). The Continental Army wasnât named after George Washington. Fort McHenry didnât exist at the time of the American Revolution. Speaking of things that didnât exist during the Revolutionary War, airports.
Trump said Washington army (still not named after him), âmanned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airportsâŚâ It took over the airports? Did the Continental Army get a connecting flight in Atlanta? Did they have to pay outlandish parking fees at Dulles?
Donald Trump is the guy youâd be embarrassed to bring to a party. âWhat? That guy? Donât look at me. I donât know who invited him. He grabbed you where?â But in this case, heâs the ringmaster. At one point during the speech, he said, âFrederick Douglass.â He didnât say anything about Frederick Douglass, he just said, âFrederick Douglass.â Iâm sure there was something in the speech about Douglass, but how hard is it to read from a teleprompter? Any literate person can do it, right? Oh, itâs the literacy thing, isnât it?
We got a history lesson from a guy who canât remember history from two years ago, or last week, or yesterday. This is a guy who claims he created a great economy, ignoring the fact he inherited a great economy created by Barack Obama.
Perhaps the biggest error with Trumpâs knowledge of history is that Independence Day is NOT a military holiday. We have ten federal holidays and two of them are for honoring the military, but Independence Day is not one of them. So, Trump took July 4th and made it about the military and himself.
Even though Trump did avoid politics and chants of, âlock her up,â âbuild the wall,â and âdrain the swamp,â it was a political speech. He had special seating for his campaign donors and he ordered the military to provide a showcase with him in the center of it.
Perhaps my favorite part, other than the mediocre-sized crowd that was rained on, was Trump encouraging people to join the military. Cadet Bone Spurs who received five deferments from serving in Vietnam and whose two grown sons didnât serve either (but like to take big guns to Africa and shoot fenced animals), said, âJoin our military and make a truly great statement in life. And you should do it.â
Do you really want to make a great statement in life? Vote for someone whoâs not a self-absorbed idiot. Vote for someone whoâs not Donald Trump. It doesnât matter who they are as long as itâs not Donald Trump. Of course, for you to not vote for Donald Trump, youâd have to not be an idiot.
~Clay Jones
God bless Ivanka!
âmmmm bigly hamberder!â
