Democrats Delete Tweet Targeting Mount Rushmore over ‘White Supremacy’
The Democrat Party on Monday evening tweeted, then
deleted, an attack on Mount Rushmore, negatively portraying an upcoming
event President Trump is planning ahead of Independence Day at the
historic monument to four great American presidents.
The linked story from the Guardian quotes Oglala Lakota tribe member Nick Tilsen, the president of local activist group “NDN Collective,” as calling Mount Rushmore a symbol of “white supremacy.”
“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” Tilsen said, a message echoed by the Democrat Party’s formal Twitter account.
The Guardian piece goes on to note that Tilsen wants to see Mount Rushmore torn down altogether.
The push from the Democrats to target Mount Rushmore comes as leftist activists tear down monuments and statues around the country. But the move by the Democrat Party to put the iconic American mountainside monument to four great American presidents–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln–in the crosshairs by claiming it represents “white supremacy” when it clearly does not may go too far for some voters. Several on Twitter were quick to rip the Democrats for pushing attempts to destroy Mount Rushmore:
The Democratic Party's plan to run on a "Mount Rushmore is racist" platform was truly innovative. pic.twitter.com/HA0uxwKWUO— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) June 30, 2020
Everybody: "Did you see that crazy thing Trump tweeted?"— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 30, 2020
Democrats: "Hold my kombucha." https://t.co/eYDfs9EEPa
Everybody: "Did you see that crazy thing Trump tweeted?"— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 30, 2020
Democrats: "Hold my kombucha." https://t.co/eYDfs9EEPa
Last week, Trump signed an executive order protecting monuments from rioters and others who would seek to destroy or tear them down.
“They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters,” Trump said in a statement accompanying the executive order. “It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, in a recent tweet, said she would protect Mount Rushmore from radicals who want to tear it down:
Not on my watch. https://t.co/U6gGap5Ib6— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) June 23, 2020
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