Trump Raps ‘Radical Left’; Indians Review Name: Protest Wrap
U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watch as South Dakota Army National Guard Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters fly over during an event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, U.S., July 3.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergPresident Donald Trump again took on the protests that have broken out nationwide since the death of George Floyd. “We are now in the process of defeating the radical left: the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters,” he said in a July 4th speech in Washington. Before the speech -- and a military flyover and fireworks -- protesters gathered near the White House at the newly-named Black Lives Matter Plaza.
His remarks echoed those he gave at Mount Rushmore the night before, in which he said people attacking historical monuments are part of a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.”