Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant....
said, prior to the speech, that the event had been "designed more to stroke Trump’s ego than celebrate American ideals." (This from a politician who served under Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
, who not only made virtually every speech about himself, but dared to re-design the presidential seal in his own image.)
Biden could not have been more wrong. Trump’s speech was all about the country ‐ its heroes, its people, and its democratic ideals.
Trump, in the rain, addressed the nation and re-told the heroic story of its founding. "With a single sheet of parchment, and 56 signatures, America began the greatest political journey in human history," Trump said, recalling the battles that followed to secure the freedom for which the Founders had fought.
He went on to tell the story of American success ‐ not just in politics and war, but also in science, medicine, technology, industry, exploration, culture, and civil rights.
Trump boldly spoke the truths that have been suppressed in our media and on our campuses. His speech was not only moving, but necessary. The history he related, and the achievements he celebrated, are unknown to a generation raised to see our country as flawed, if not evil.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
declares today that America is not the "greatest," but "just OK"; Vice tells readers America "has always been bad." That is the new poisonous orthodoxy; Trump provided the antidote.
More than that, Trump celebrated the ordinary people who constantly renew our country’s potential.
He acknowledged Tina "Angel" Belcher, who "turns her tiny kitchen into a disaster relief center" for hurricane victims; he thanked Sister Deidre Byrne for aiding the maimed on September 11, 2001; he honored Clarence Henderson, who led the historic sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960; he also praised the suffragette movement.
Trump thanked the military, and law enforcement, and Gold Star families. And he offered a moving tribute to each of the five branches of the armed forces, recounting the history of each, noting its greatest deeds.
The military band sang and played the song of each branch as its aircraft flew overhead. Trump used the opportunity to urge young Americans to join the armed forces: how often has any president made such a direct appeal, against such a moving backdrop?
This was not a political speech: it was a patriotic milestone. Trump invited us to celebrate our country ‐ boldly and explicitly. It was, somehow, something previous presidents were too timid to do.
When Navy SEALS killed the late Osama bin Laden
... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...in 2011, it took a visiting leader, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to urge us to celebrate, weeks later.
No longer. This is the greatness Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
promised to restore. Future presidents will bear a duty to do the same.