Trump signals support for white supremacy with Twitter refusal to rename confederate forts
Donald Trump is a dim bulb.
It doesn’t take much intelligence or common sense to realize that taking a stance against renaming American military bases that honor Confederate generals in the middle of the largest protests against racism and police brutality in United States history might be — at best — bad timing and — even worse — as foolishly insensitive and counterproductive to quelling racial tensions.
Intelligence and common sense have never been among Trump’s hallmarks as his tweets today perfectly indicate.
It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our Legendary Military Bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc. These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
…Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
Trump was reacting to a suggestion to rename these “Legendary Military Bases” to eliminate their association with traitorous slavery-protecting generals that has been circulating in the military recently as our nation confronts the unhealed wounds of systemic racism hiding in plain sight.
Trump’s tweets come two days after Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that they were “open” to renaming the bases.
Responses to the president’s tweet explained exactly why Trump’s reactionary defense of the existing names of the military facilities as “part of a Great American Heritage” is so wrongheaded and insulting to the intelligence of the American people.
Fort Bragg is named after Confederate general and traitorous loser Braxton Bragg. Not only was he a traitor, but he literally sucked ass as a general and lost too many battles to count. The fact that this loser has his name on an army base despite being such a loser is laughable.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 10, 2020
In summary, all these piece of shit Confederate Generals are rotting in hell where they belong. Sayonara motherfuckers.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 10, 2020
If you want to respect the military, then how about you let our own military make this decision, Captain Bone Spur?
— Black Lives Matter (@HKrassenstein) June 10, 2020
Germany doesn’t have Military Bases named after Nazi SS officers or monuments of Nazi SS officers. In America they call it "Great American Heritage"
— Chidi®️ (@ChidiNwatu) June 10, 2020
#BREAKING Man Whose Imaginary Bone Spurs Prevented Him From Serving His Country In A Time Of War Has Opinion On Honoring The Military
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 10, 2020
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https://twitter.com/the_resistor/status/1270796069866074112?s=20
I DON'T GET IT…HE CALLS HIMSELF ANOTHER LINCOLN, HE SAYS REPUBLICANS ENDED SLAVERY SO WHY DOES HE LOVE THE CONFEDERATE FLAG? HE SHOULD HUG THAT FLAG THAN OUR GREAT FLAG THAT HE NEVER FOUGHT FOR…"CON PRES."
— GL (@glane2007) June 10, 2020
Names of Confederate generals should live on in our history books, museums, battlefields but these traitors should not be glorified by the country that defeated them, and 155 years later still struggles to solidify victory, to fulfill promise to those the Confederacy had enslaved
— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) June 10, 2020
I propose changing the names to Fort McCain, Fort Mattis, Fort Vindman, Fort McRaven, Fort Mueller, Fort Allen, Fort Clapper, Fort McChrystal, and Fort Taylor.
— Tami Burages (@tburages) June 10, 2020
— RW (@Rob_AirOne) June 10, 2020
No, it doesn’t take much intelligence or common sense to realize that taking a stance against renaming American military bases that honor Confederate generals is a bad idea at any time post-1865.
It does, however, take a special blend of stupidity and malice to try to make that argument right now, and those are two “qualities” that Donald Trump has in abundance.
He must be removed.
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