Shrimpbox
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The speech delivered at Mt. Rushmore on July 3 will go down as one of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president. It doesn’t have the eloquence and certainly not the brevity of a Gettysburg Address but it encompasses all the requirements of a wartime address to the nation looking for leadership. The speech was passionate, full of conviction, replete with clarity, positive, uplifting, and unifying. It is the speech all of trumps detractors believed he was incapable of giving. It is the speech all the talking heads said trump needed to give. And most of all it is the speech that the nation was crying out for.
Trump was feeling it Friday night. His makeup was perfect, the weather was perfect, and the setting was perfect. As four giants of the American experiment looked down on him, Trump proved once and for all he too belonged in the pantheon of American greatness. The stage was not too big, the challenge was not too great, and the man was not too small for the moment. He dispensed with the usual campaign rally familiarity. He was conspicuously Presidential. No anecdotes, no personal attacks, no asides, no stories. He had one mission on that night, to tell a nervous nation why we should believe in our heritage and our future and turn our backs on those who would try to destroy our nation. He offered a history lesson. He saluted those four titans on the rock above him. He quoted Marin Luther King saying we should be true to the ideals of our founders. He showed how in the arc of history no nation had ever done as much for humanity in every field of endeavor as ours has. When all those around him have shown weakness and cowardice, he showed leadership. He said what needed to be said, what no one else is saying, and what the country has hungered for. He is holding the lantern to lead us out of the darkness, out of the desert, out of despair and hopelessness. He proved once and for all that Donald Trump is a man who unwaveringly believes in his country, it’s history, and it’s promise. He is a man of patriotic conviction, authenticness, and unbounded optimism. Right now he is singlehandedly leading our country away from darkness. There is no one else. Friday he gave us a reason to believe in him. A reason to follow him, a reason to be proud to be an American, a reminder that we should always be proud to be an American. Trump did what Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done before him, he preserved and celebrated this great nation in one of its greatest hours of need. When they write the history of 2020, scholars will point to this speech as a turning point both for the country and the president. They will note that by sheer force of will and sense of purpose Donald Trump alone righted the ship and put this nation back on course. Truly July 3, 2020, President Donald Trump punched his ticket to greatness.
Trump was feeling it Friday night. His makeup was perfect, the weather was perfect, and the setting was perfect. As four giants of the American experiment looked down on him, Trump proved once and for all he too belonged in the pantheon of American greatness. The stage was not too big, the challenge was not too great, and the man was not too small for the moment. He dispensed with the usual campaign rally familiarity. He was conspicuously Presidential. No anecdotes, no personal attacks, no asides, no stories. He had one mission on that night, to tell a nervous nation why we should believe in our heritage and our future and turn our backs on those who would try to destroy our nation. He offered a history lesson. He saluted those four titans on the rock above him. He quoted Marin Luther King saying we should be true to the ideals of our founders. He showed how in the arc of history no nation had ever done as much for humanity in every field of endeavor as ours has. When all those around him have shown weakness and cowardice, he showed leadership. He said what needed to be said, what no one else is saying, and what the country has hungered for. He is holding the lantern to lead us out of the darkness, out of the desert, out of despair and hopelessness. He proved once and for all that Donald Trump is a man who unwaveringly believes in his country, it’s history, and it’s promise. He is a man of patriotic conviction, authenticness, and unbounded optimism. Right now he is singlehandedly leading our country away from darkness. There is no one else. Friday he gave us a reason to believe in him. A reason to follow him, a reason to be proud to be an American, a reminder that we should always be proud to be an American. Trump did what Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done before him, he preserved and celebrated this great nation in one of its greatest hours of need. When they write the history of 2020, scholars will point to this speech as a turning point both for the country and the president. They will note that by sheer force of will and sense of purpose Donald Trump alone righted the ship and put this nation back on course. Truly July 3, 2020, President Donald Trump punched his ticket to greatness.
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