{"id":87106,"date":"2020-07-04T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=87106"},"modified":"2020-07-04T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T10:55:18","slug":"auto-draft-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/07\/04\/auto-draft-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Address Mount Rushmore Crowd Without a Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. – U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off the country\u2019s July Fourth celebrations Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, telling the crowd their children \u201care taught in school to hate their own country\u201d and insisting that what he called a radical assault from the left needs to be stopped to preserve the American way of life.<\/p>\n

Trump also warned the crowd that the demonstrations against racial inequality that have spread across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis in late May threaten the foundations of American government.<\/p>\n

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Fireworks explode above the Mount Rushmore National Monument during an Independence Day event attended by President Donald Trump in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The president announced that he is ordering the establishment a \u201cNational Garden of American Heroes\u201d with statues \u201cof the greatest Americans that ever lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump did not wear a mask for his address, even though the country is experiencing a raging surge in the coronavirus pandemic. \u00a0Most in the crowd did not wear masks either. There was also no attempt to socially distance any of the attendees.<\/p>\n

Public health officials are concerned that the South Dakota event may end up being a superspreader of the virus, an event at which an usually large number of people are infected.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump speaks at Mount Rushmore National Monument on July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The president talked about each man — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — whose likeness is carved into the massive mountain.<\/p>\n

The president gave only the standard patriotic account of each man without any of the complicated portions of their lives.<\/p>\n

He also did not mention that the mountain is sacred to Native Americans who now consider the site desecrated because of the carvings.<\/p>\n

Trump said the growing social justice movement in the country \u201cwould in truth demolish both justice and society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Native American protesters demonstrate in Keystone, S.D., ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the memorial July 3, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trump also said to the cheers of the crowd that the border wall is being built. Building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico was one of Trump\u2019s campaign promises.<\/p>\n

After his speech, there was a fireworks display, the first at Mount Rushmore in about 10 years.<\/p>\n

Some politicians, environmentalists and activists had opposed the display because of the dry conditions surrounding the site. \u00a0Congresswoman Deb Haaland of New Mexico said the fireworks could pose a threat to what she called the \u201cfragile area\u201d and to firefighters, if a wildfire were started. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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