The 2020 @realdonaldtrump "No Apologies" Tour continues: Trump to Issue Executive Order to Protect Monuments to Slave Traders and Confederate Soldiers
Proving once again that he is completely out-of-step, Trump will sign a toothless executive order next week encouraging
Proving once again that he is completely out-of-step, Trump will sign a toothless executive order next week encouraging
enforcement of laws that prohibit removal or defacement of monuments. The ill-fated executive order ignores the fact that most cities are removing monuments to slave traders and Confederate heroes as quickly as they can. See NYTimes, “Cities Want to Remove Toxic Monuments. But
Who Will Take Them?” As for monuments torn down by protesters before the local government can get to them, it seems unlikely that anyone will be prosecuted for toppling a monument to a slave trader. (“A statue of John McDonogh, a merchant and trader of enslaved people, was
removed from Duncan Plaza in New Orleans and dragged into the Mississippi River.”) And, yet, Trump has resorted to his one-trick strategy of appealing to a small and shrinking base by protecting monuments to slave traders and Confederate. That is a desperate strategy.
He’s got nothing, and has adopted glorification of the losing side in the Civil War as a campaign strategy. Pathetic @jimcramer @tomkeene @cnbcfastmoney @SquawkCNBC @riskreversal @carlquintanilla @ScottWapnerCNBC @EpsilonTheory @lizclaman @threadreaderapp unroll
