“Yeah, what the president saw when he looked at this issue,” McEnany recalled, “he takes it personally offensive, the notion that the men who deployed to World War II, to World War I, to Korea, all across the world, to Vietnam — the last bit of the United States many of these men saw were these forts.”It's not the facilities that are racist; it's the people they are named for. Those people do not deserve this singular honor. The facilities will be honorable no matter what the name, but the name should be honorable, too.
“And to somehow imply these forts were racist installations and that’s the last thing they saw as they left, many of whom lost their life overseas, the president will not stand for that,” she added. “The president will respect this, because these forts and these names are associated with the heroes within them, not the name on the fort.”
Not surprised this is a hill Trump wants to die on. I say: "Let him."
This is an interesting tweet from someone who reportedly had to ask what happened at Pearl Harbor, called John Lewis all talk and no action, and said in 2016 he hadn’t read a single presidential biography. https://t.co/koHy0FK0J3— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) June 11, 2020
Doubly ironic in this context, no?
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