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The 'Washington Post' called it "bleak." The 'New York Times', of "dividing". As expected, Donald Trump's speech on the eve of July 4 in front of Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, left no one indifferent. It was radical and incendiary , exploiting to the maximum the division that exists in the United States due to the wave of racial tension and the revisionism of monuments that glorify the country's racist past.

Before a group of about 7,500 followers, without any social distance and without the obligatory use of face masks despite the rise of the pandemic, Trump warned of the presence of an "extreme left" that is establishing a "new fascism" to end its values . Known as few of the tastes of his parish, the Republican promised to defend his liberties to the end, including the monument with the sculpted faces of the four presidents in the Black Hills. "This monument will never be desecrated."

He said it coldly, reading the speech slowly and defiantly . "In our schools, our newsrooms, even in our administrative councils, there is a new extreme left fascism that calls for absolute loyalty," he said with a sea of ​​American flags in the background. "If you don't speak their language, don't practice their rituals, recite their mantras and follow their commandments, you will be censored, blacklisted, persecuted and punished." He understands it as a "cultural revolution" of the liberals.

For Trump, the nation "is witnessing a ruthless campaign to erase our history, defame our heroes, remove our values, and indoctrinate our children." The president maintains that children are being indoctrinated in schools. "They are being taught to hate their own country ... and that our heroes are not heroes, but villains." All because of "enraged mobs who are trying to tear down the statues of our founders, erase the faces of our most sacred monuments, and unleash a wave of violent crimes in our cities." He dedicated a few moments to the pandemic that is hitting the country with intensity and collapsing hospitals.

An electoral reef

Beleaguered by catastrophic numbers in the fight against the coronavirus, with more than 50,000 cases registered for the third consecutive day , Trump seems to have found a new vein to exploit electorally and stoke the division that gave him such good results in 2016. He has already aligned himself with the side with white supremacists in the 2017 incidents in Charlottesville, Virginia, with controversy over the demolition of the equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in between. He said there were "very good people" between the neo-Nazis and the fascist ideology groups.

On Friday, in South Dakota, he again became a defender of a story full of racist and questionable episodes. Like the fact that the monument in question, with effigies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, was sculpted by Gutzon Borglum, a man with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Or that Washington and Jefferson were slavers . Up to 600 the third American president and one of the founders of the country, owned, accused of systematically raping one of them, Sally Hemings. "These heroes will never have their faces erased, their legacy will never be destroyed, and their achievements will never be forgotten," Trump told an afflicted audience.

This in the midst of an alarming situation in many parts of the country due to the increase in Covid-19 infections. In Florida, the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, it broke a record of cases with 11,445 in a single day . Still, some of the northern state beaches remained open and filled with families enjoying July 4th.

In Texas, where cases have skyrocketed, at least two patients had to be moved to other regions due to a lack of hospital beds. In only one state, Vermont, has there been a drop in cases.

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