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00:00:36.000Hospitalizations are rising around the country from COVID-19.
00:00:39.000That is not a shock because we've seen an increased number of cases.
00:00:41.000The death rates continue to be incredibly low, so we are hoping and praying and crossing our fingers that we don't see a spike in the death rates if the rates of infection continue to rise and the death rates continue to plateau.
00:00:53.000And the media seem not to be hoping for that.
00:00:55.000The media seem to be hoping that any moment we will be overwhelmed.
00:00:58.000Now, the reality is that most hospitals are not overwhelmed at this point.
00:01:01.000Even the hospitals they're talking about, quote-unquote, being overwhelmed, are hospitals where the ICUs are now using some flex capacity.
00:01:07.000But the fact is that's because they had not been barring the elective surgeries up until the last week or so.
00:01:12.000So there are a lot of patients who are left over from elective surgeries.
00:01:15.000As of Houston, in Houston hospitals as of last week, only about 25% of the beds were taken up in the ICUs by COVID-19 patients.
00:01:22.000Apparently in some hospitals, that is now up to about 50% of the ICU beds.
00:01:26.000What that means is that they're going to cancel the elective surgeries again.
00:01:28.000In fact, they've already done this in certain parts of Florida, in certain parts of Arizona, in certain parts of California.
00:01:33.000So the hospital The sort of hospital resources are not threatened yet at this point.
00:01:39.000Plus, we now know how to deal with this thing a lot better, which is really good.
00:01:42.000I mean, certain steps that have been taken by hospitals are significantly stronger in terms of fighting COVID-19 than they were even a few months ago.
00:01:49.000So anybody telling you we're in the same position that we were back in March is lying to you.
00:02:10.000There are a couple of therapeutic drugs that are now being used far more widely.
00:02:13.000The rates of death in hospitals, in other words, have gone down fairly radically.
00:02:17.000So I think we can all hope and pray together as Americans Okay, but that's not the big story of the day across America.
00:02:22.000The big story of the day across America continues to be the cultural revolution we are currently experiencing.
00:02:25.000on Sunday, we had the lowest level of death in the United States that we had had since about mid-March, since like March 23rd or something.
00:02:32.000So that is actually very, very good news.
00:02:34.000Okay, but that's not the big story of the day across America.
00:02:37.000The big story of the day across America continues to be the cultural revolution we are currently experiencing.
00:02:42.000Now, I have never seen, I will say this, I've seen the media gaslight a lot about President Trump.
00:02:47.000The Gaslighting, for those who don't know, is a phrase that is a word that is used based on a movie from the 1940s called Gaslight.
00:02:55.000It's about a husband Who marries a wife and then essentially gets bored with her and decides to get her to commit suicide by driving her crazy.
00:03:02.000So he always turns down the light on the stairs, and then he will tell her that the light is not down on the stairs.
00:03:40.000Okay, I think it is the best speech that Trump has ever given.
00:03:42.000I think the speech was right on the money.
00:03:43.000We'll go through it in just a few minutes.
00:03:45.000But the media are totally gaslighting this thing.
00:03:48.000So they're suggesting two separate things about President Trump's speech, both of which are wildly inaccurate.
00:03:53.000The first line of attack is that Trump is just delusional, that all the stuff that he's talking about in his speech, as we'll see, did not happen.
00:04:14.000We've been watching people talking openly about tearing down statues of George Washington.
00:04:19.000We've watched statues of Thomas Jefferson defaced and torn down.
00:04:22.000We've seen, in multiple areas, statues of Christopher Columbus come down.
00:04:25.000In fact, over the weekend, there was a Columbus statue that was toppled by Baltimore protesters over the weekend in another act of vandalism.
00:04:33.000They just pulled the statue right down.
00:04:34.000You can see the people cheering wildly as the statue topples over, collapses on its head and splits in half.
00:04:40.000And then you see this group of woke protesters.
00:05:47.000Yes, there were indigenous peoples, but in terms of the percentage of population to the amount of land, it was relatively depopulated.
00:05:54.000Okay, that does not mean that you get to steal other people's land, presumably, as a general moral principle, but let's just be real about this.
00:06:00.000That is the entire history of humanity.
00:06:02.000But there is this new-fangled morality that says, okay, well, we have to condemn the existence of the United States because there were Native American peoples who were here before this, ignoring, of course, the fact that various tribes were stealing land from one another and attacking one another, and again, That is all of human history.
00:06:16.000That is not unique to Western civilization.
00:06:18.000It is all of human history for all time.
00:06:20.000And I will note, again, that all the same people who are suggesting that America is stolen land don't seem to be giving up their apartments anytime soon.
00:06:26.000I haven't seen any of them go over to the Native American tribes, local American tribes, and say, you know what?
00:06:32.000My parents own this apartment building.
00:06:33.000When I inherit it, guess what I'm doing?
00:06:39.000Virtue signaling means that you get to signal the virtue without actually having to do any of the things.
00:06:43.000So they've torn down a monument to the Oregon Trail families who made it possible for them to live in places like Portland.
00:06:49.000And by the way, who are incredibly brave.
00:06:50.000The pioneers were incredibly brave people.
00:06:51.000When is the last time you got in a covered wagon with no Count them no police protection and then decided that you were just going to wander across a giant piece of land and take three months in doing so, fording the rivers and shooting the squirrels just like you did in the game Oregon Trail.
00:07:06.000But don't worry, you are brave because you torched a monument to the people who did that sort of stuff.
00:07:37.000Okay, well, I very much look forward to you going back to your ancestral homeland of Europe, the white people who apparently put up the sign that says this is stolen land.
00:07:45.000Meanwhile, in the craziest statue toppling of the weekend, apparently a statue of Frederick Douglass was toppled.
00:07:53.000So there are people who are suggesting that maybe this is the alt-right in revenge, which would, of course, be absolutely disgusting.
00:07:57.000Frederick Douglass is one of the great heroes of American history, a freed slave who called upon the United States to fulfill its honorable proclamations in the Declaration of Independence.
00:08:05.000We talked about Frederick Douglass a lot right before July 4th on this show.
00:08:09.000Apparently, the Frederick Douglass statue in Maplewood Park was removed from its base overnight.
00:08:13.000And bits of the statue were scattered about the area.
00:08:15.000Apparently, it was eventually found in a ditch about 50 yards distant with one of the fingers broken.
00:08:21.000So it's unclear who did this sort of thing.
00:08:30.000This is now a sort of mainstream and increasingly mainstream democratic position is that the statue should come down.
00:08:36.000Joe Biden has taken the sort of halfway position, which is let's take down the Confederate statues, which, again, I think in some cases is justifiable.
00:08:43.000But let's leave up the statues of Washington and Jefferson and Columbus, which is the mainstream American position.
00:08:47.000When I say it's halfway, what I mean is I don't believe him.
00:08:50.000I don't believe that Joe Biden is going to fend off his left.
00:08:53.000I just don't think it's a thing that he's going to do.
00:08:55.000I think he is saying that for now because he knows that the American people are not with the program in terms of wiping away all of American history.
00:09:02.000But I think that increasingly the Democratic is with that program of wiping out all of American history.
00:09:07.000As I talk about my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, comes out in about two weeks at this point.
00:09:13.000The goal is to wipe away American history, recast it as something dark and malicious and evil, to recast America's Declaration of Independence as terrible.
00:09:22.000The great heroes of our time like Colin Kaepernick, civil rights heroes like Colin Kaepernick, an extraordinarily rich quarterback who was perfectly fine with July 4th until he got benched for Blaine Gabbard, at which point July 4th became terrible.
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00:11:08.000Again, this is becoming an incre- Everything that starts off on the radical left eventually makes its way into the heart of the Democratic Party.
00:11:14.000And what the Democratic Party does, they play this game where the radical left does something crazy, like defund the police.
00:11:19.000And the Democratic Party goes, that's crazy, man.
00:12:45.000She says, are you talking about George Washington?
00:12:46.000She's like, I think we should listen to everybody.
00:12:48.000The reason I'm setting up this predicate, guys, is because what the media are about to say is that when Trump talks about it, it never happened.
00:13:32.000The continuing destruction of America's history, that I talk about at length in my book, that this continuing destruction of American history is a page.
00:13:38.000Colin Kaepernick has now been made the social justice conscience of the NFL.
00:13:42.000This extraordinarily rich, mediocre quarterback, at best, Okay, this extraordinarily privileged guy.
00:13:49.000This is a person of tremendous privilege.
00:13:51.000The man earned a million dollars from Nike for kneeling on an ad.
00:13:54.000Okay, let's not pretend that this guy is not a beneficiary of the American assistant Colin Kaepernick.
00:13:59.000Okay, that guy who is posing in like communist regalia while he was in the NFL and wearing socks that had pictures of cops as pigs on them.
00:14:09.000And then he was kneeling for the anthem.
00:14:10.000And we were told, by the way, that when he was kneeling for the anthem, he was not, in fact, kneeling for the anthem.
00:14:14.000Remember, this was the line, because everyone lies.
00:14:28.000It was about respect for the flag, of course, because he was just standing up for what's best about America.
00:14:32.000Except for yesterday, he, over the weekend, He put up a tweet that said black people have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized and terrorized by America for centuries and are expected to join your commemoration of independence while you enslaved our ancestors.
00:14:46.000We reject your celebration of white supremacy and look forward to liberation for all.
00:14:50.000And then you put up a video of all of these horrifying images from American history linked inherently with things like police shootings.
00:14:59.000As though lynchings in 1920 are the same as a disputed case of a police shooting during a stop.
00:15:22.000By the way, the cancel culture comes for everybody, as we'll discuss, but the media love this stuff.
00:15:27.000CNN over the weekend, so Trump's speaking at Mount Rushmore, and Trump and the CNN reporter It's almost impossible to describe how insane this is from CNN.
00:15:38.000The CNN reporter starts talking about Mount Rushmore and discusses Mount Rushmore as stolen Native American land and a statue of at least two slaveholders.
00:15:47.000And the way that CNN creates its chyron, the CNN chyron says, re-examining Independence Day.
00:15:52.000They put independence in scare quotes.
00:15:55.000It's not Independence Day anymore, which, by the way, is the official name of the holiday, right?
00:16:43.000Here is CNN, over the weekend again, declaring Mount Rushmore a racist site of white supremacy.
00:16:48.000As Americans face a reckoning over racism, past and present, there's no message of healing from the White House.
00:16:55.000Instead, President Trump is calling a Black Lives Matter street mural a symbol of hate.
00:17:01.000And Jake, kicking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans told that, uh, be focusing on the effort to, quote, tear down our country's history.
00:17:19.000Okay, tear down our country's history, but that's bad.
00:17:32.000The reason that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are on that monument is not because they're slaveholders.
00:17:37.000The idiocy of suggesting When you build a memorial to people who did great things, what you're actually memorializing is all the worst things, is the stupidest thing in the entire world.
00:17:44.000We have giant statues of Martin Luther King all over the United States.
00:17:47.000Nearly every state in the United States independently, independently created a Martin Luther King holiday before the federal holiday was passed.
00:17:54.000In fact, there's a massive, massive controversy in the United States in the 1980s when a couple of states wouldn't do it.
00:18:00.000OK, Martin Luther King, by available evidence, was horrible to women.
00:18:04.000OK, there's there's very, very good evidence that Martin Luther King treated women abominably.
00:18:10.000Of course not, because that's not why we remember Martin Luther King.
00:18:13.000Nobody thinks that when we memorialize Martin Luther King, what we're actually doing is memorializing all the ways he mistreated women.
00:18:20.000The insanity of suggesting that when you put up a statue to a person, what you're doing is you're honoring every single thing about the person.
00:19:05.000It's particularly ugly for people on the left, actually, because if you're on the right, like I know conservatives are not interested in canceling other conservatives and they're not going to go along with this.
00:19:12.000If you're on the left, You probably will be cancelled because your own crowd is going to flee from you screaming and running for the hills with their hair on fire the minute that you are called out as anything approaching a racist.
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00:20:57.000OK, so the cancel culture is real, too.
00:20:59.000OK, so you combine the perception of American history that all American history is evil and racist with the belief that if you do anything within the systems of the United States, you can fairly be labeled a racist.
00:21:09.000This is the how-to-be-an-anti-racist, Ibram X. Kendi nonsense that the left has been pushing for the past several years.
00:21:15.000The idea being that if you are complicit in any system in America, you are a racist.
00:21:21.000Even the most innocuous gestures get you canceled.
00:21:24.000Because after all, the most innocuous gestures are just generating support for this horrible, evil system that ends with inequality at the end point.
00:21:31.000And so that means it doesn't matter how left you are.
00:21:33.000It doesn't matter how good you have been on progressive issues.
00:21:51.000I've done a whole bit on Hamilton on the show before.
00:21:53.000I got problems with Hamilton mostly from an artistic perspective.
00:21:57.000But even from the general perspective that you can only identify with people of your own race, playing people who are not of that race, I've always found bizarre.
00:22:03.000Like, I grew up listening to 1776 and watching 1776, not a Jew among the bunch, but I never had a problem identifying with the characters.
00:22:10.000Just as, you know, if you watch a great movie with somebody who is not of your race, you routinely identify with people who are not of your race in the movies.
00:22:16.000In any case, Putting all of that aside, it's a very patriotic musical.
00:22:21.000I mean, the musical is about the greatness of America and about the establishment of America.
00:22:25.000Okay, well, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton creator Jeffrey Seller, according to Emily Zanotti at Daily Wire, were forced to apologize over the weekend for failing to adequately address the Black Lives Matter movement and for, quote, taking part in the moral failure of not speaking up amid the ongoing protests taking place across the nation over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
00:22:43.000Miranda said in a video posted over the weekend to his Twitter account, we spoke out on the day of the Pulse shooting.
00:22:47.000We spoke out when Vice President Pence came to our show 10 days after the election that we have not yet firmly spoken the inarguable truth that Black Lives Matter and denounced systematic racism and white supremacy from our official Hamilton channels is a moral failure on our part.
00:23:02.000As the writer of that show, I take responsibility and apologize for my part in this moral failure.
00:23:07.000He added he was sorry for, quote, not pushing harder and faster for us to speak the self-evident truths under the Hamilton banner, which has come to mean so much to many of you.
00:23:15.000Hamilton doesn't exist without the black and brown artists who created and revolutionized and changed the world through the culture, music, and language of hip hop.
00:23:21.000Literally, the idea of the show doesn't exist without brilliant black and brown artists and our cast crew and production team who breathe life into the story every time it's performed.
00:23:55.000If you didn't dedicate the entire Hamilton webpage to George Floyd or something.
00:23:58.000Was anyone under the grave misimpression that Lin-Manuel Miranda or that any of the people who were originally involved in this thing were deeply racist and were standing with Derek Chauvin in that case?
00:24:18.000For years, this is according to the New York Times, people have been calling for John T. Edge to step down as head of the influential Southern Foodways Alliance.
00:24:26.000They say he's a white man, however charming, who has too much power over who tells the story of food in a region where so much of the cuisine was created by enslaved people.
00:24:34.000For years, Mr. Edge has been listening and remained in his position at the top.
00:24:38.000He said recently, I'll listen hard and with as much intensity as I can.
00:24:41.000Out of a moment of stern and righteous critique comes a better organization.
00:24:44.000The work we've done over the last 20 years is work that is true to our mission, Work that, despite flaws that I may see and others may see, is intended to make progress and make positive change in a region I have always loved and sometimes hate.
00:24:54.000But listening might not be enough anymore.
00:24:57.000Before there were biscuits all over Brooklyn and barbecue pitmasters made the list of America's best chefs, 50 cooks and writers shared a meal in Birmingham, Alabama in 1999 and created the Southern Foodways Alliance.
00:25:10.000With food as a lens, the organization aimed to preserve the intricacies of the Southern Table in a way that would both erase the nation's corn-poned concepts about the region's food and help heal a tortured racist history.
00:25:21.000Now, people are calling for Edge, who's the founder of the organization, to leave.
00:25:35.000Mr. Edge, say his critics, is a statue that needs to come down.
00:25:39.000Author Lolis Eric Ellie, 57, a founder of the organization, says, I view him as a dear friend and a close ally, but principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.
00:25:46.000And John T. is a man of great principle who may end up paying a great price in this context.
00:25:51.000According to Marcy Cohen Ferris, 63, a former board president and professor emeritus at American Studies at UNC, University of North Carolina, what we have is a middle-aged man who, like so many progressive Southerners, has wrestled with the demons of his white Southern past and used that to help build a better South.
00:26:06.000The reconciliation stance is no longer going to work in this nation.
00:26:40.000He wants a black woman to take the job.
00:26:44.000And then days later, Ronnie Lundy, 70, a founder in the organization, wrote a pointed Facebook post and delivered a letter calling for him to step aside.
00:26:51.000Her litany of issues centered on sexism.
00:27:06.000You'll be forced out if you are a participant in a system that has not been turned over to the right people, the people who are higher on the woke pyramid.
00:27:46.000Well, they demanded the resignation of the president, commitments from every board member they would not run for re-election or accept any future leadership position within the College Democrats, and amendments to the organization's governing documents.
00:27:58.000Just before Guido stepped down on Wednesday afternoon, she appointed Nalling as vice president to the person who's calling for her to leave.
00:28:03.000She appointed him as VP, and he accepted, meaning he takes over the organization.
00:28:08.000Members said that, what did she do wrong?
00:28:21.000Mr. Nalling, a student at Denison University in Ohio, who was elected to the board last year and began his term in September, said other members had routinely ignored his suggestions, demeaned him, and cast him as lazy and incompetent.
00:28:35.000He says that these are racist tropes used against black people for generations to prevent them from advancing in the workplace.
00:28:41.000When he suggested the College Democrats host a town hall on diversity, he recalled in an interview on Tuesday, one board member laughed out loud.
00:28:47.000Others did not take the idea seriously until a white member backed him up.
00:28:50.000A board member once mocked his clothing as cheap and suggested he take it back to the thrift store.
00:28:54.000On another occasion, a state federation leader complained he focused too much on black issues.
00:28:59.000Nelling said that Guido had been complicit.
00:29:01.000Guido's a law student at University of Florida.
00:29:03.000She said she wasn't even aware of the allegations until he told her he was resigning.
00:29:06.000And she had urged the offending board members to resign as soon as she found out, but it wasn't enough.
00:29:29.000Because 33 years ago, he wrote a piece arguing women shouldn't be in combat.
00:29:33.000Hey, that's like a hot topic right now.
00:29:36.000Okay, the question of how far women should serve in combat, considering that the average woman is less physically strong than the average male.
00:29:59.000If you look at this, 33 years ago, 33 years ago, and they ousted him from Boeing.
00:30:05.000He said, my argument was embarrassingly wrong and offensive.
00:30:08.000The article is not a reflection of who I am.
00:30:09.000Nonetheless, I've decided in the interest of the company, I will step down.
00:30:12.000He said, at issue is not whether women can fire M60s, dogfight Migs, or drive tanks.
00:30:17.000Introducing women into combat would destroy the exclusively male intangibles of warfighting and the feminine images of what men fight for, peace, home, and family.
00:30:25.000Okay, like, not the best, but also, like, the very, by the way, one of those aspects is not necessarily the best, but the latter part of that sentence.
00:30:36.000But the stuff about, like, how you have male camaraderie and that women don't necessarily fit directly into male camaraderie is 100% true.
00:30:42.000And if you reverse the sexes, it would obviously be true and reverse as well.
00:30:45.000And if you introduce a bunch of men into an all-women's group, it changes the math a little bit.
00:30:49.000Right, pretending there's no difference between the sexes is very, very silly.
00:30:52.000But even if you think that guy was wrong, it was 33 years ago, 33 years ago, with a perfectly legitimate general argument about women in combat positions.
00:31:32.000I'm not sure what the kid is, non-white, the kid.
00:31:34.000The kid is either black or Hispanic, I believe.
00:31:36.000And the board member takes the kid and puts the kid on his lap while in the middle of the meeting.
00:31:41.000And a board member named Robin Broshy then starts, a white person, starts screaming at this guy that he's forwarding racism by having a child of color on his lap in a New York City Education Council meeting.
00:32:38.000He tweeted out that he is going to transform the nation.
00:32:40.000He said, we're going to beat Donald Trump, and when we do, we won't just rebuild this nation, we'll transform it.
00:32:45.000And so there are many of us who look at what's going on in the country, we say, well, I wonder what you mean by transforming the country, slow old Joe.
00:32:52.000Do you mean that you're in favor of listening to the folks who want to tear down Washington statues, or do you mean that you're in favor of a cancel culture that goes after people for the great sin of being white in progressive organizations?
00:33:01.000Like, what exactly are we talking about here?
00:33:03.000Do you mean that you want to destroy, like so many on your radical left flank do, America's history, her culture?
00:33:12.000Are you going to be the bulwark against the radical left here?
00:33:15.000Because understand, for a lot of people, whatever Trump's flaws, whatever Trump's problems, and believe me, I have detailed them extensively on this program.
00:33:22.000Whatever the problems you have with Donald Trump, the vast majority of people who support Trump, support Trump not because they believe that Trump is some sort of incredibly pure human being.
00:33:32.000They believe that he is a bulwark against what's coming.
00:33:50.000Now, I wish that he had given a little bit more of a nuanced version of American history, but that's really my only critique.
00:33:55.000The generalized The theme of the speech is exactly right.
00:34:00.000I don't know who wrote this one, but this is probably the best speech he's ever given.
00:34:03.000It wasn't delivered the best that he's ever delivered a speech, because whenever you get teleprompter Trump, he's not as exciting and fun as the guy who goes to rallies and sort of riffs about going downstairs and stuff.
00:34:12.000But it was a really well-written speech.
00:34:14.000And if people were honest in the slightest about this, they would recognize that what he's saying ought to be utterly uncontroversial, but it is not.
00:34:21.000And so again, we get the two media narratives that are going to come out of the speech.
00:34:23.000We're going to play a lot of the speech now.
00:34:25.000We're going to get the two media narratives that come out of the speech and keep them in the back of your mind.
00:34:29.000Keep them in your mind so you know that when you're listening to the speech, you can spot the lies just by listening to the speech.
00:34:33.000One is, everything he's criticizing isn't happening.
00:35:17.000They assume, like everybody else assumes, that you're not going to listen to Trump's speech.
00:35:20.000They assume you're not gonna sit through a half-hour, 35-minute speech from the President of the United States, and you'll just read the headline from the Washington Post or the New York Times.
00:35:32.000At Mount Rushmore, Trump uses 4th of July celebration to stoke a culture war.
00:35:36.000Right, he started, he started the culture war.
00:35:38.000Not the people tearing down statues and getting white progressives fired from their positions, and cleansing newsrooms of the evil editors who run Tom Cotton op-eds, and using universities to bat, to, to, To hurl brick bats at particular professors?
00:36:28.000Washington Post and Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of left-wing cultural revolution, in dark speech ahead of Independence Day.
00:36:37.000Robert Costa at the Washington Post tweeted out President Trump's unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols, which he didn't mention not a one time in this entire speech, and the legacy of white domination.
00:36:48.000The legacy of white domination was crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore.
00:36:54.000Okay, if you would just read these, honestly, if you just read these headlines, what you would come away with is this is a fascist speech.
00:37:01.000In fact, there are a bunch of people who hate Trump, of course, who said exactly that.
00:37:05.000Right, Jennifer Rubin, ha ha ha, the so-called conservative columnist, she finally removed it from her Washington Post profile.
00:37:12.000She says it was a darkly aggressive and fascistic speech, positing that his enemies want to destroy America and eradicate its history.
00:37:23.000They literally want to destroy America and eradicate its history.
00:37:26.000That's not the only reason to oppose Trump.
00:37:27.000Many of Trump's opponents don't want to do that.
00:37:28.000But there are some opponents of Trump, many, who do in fact want to eradicate America's history and destroy the country.
00:37:35.000Max Boot, another one of these former never Trumpers.
00:37:38.000And again, I say that advisedly because I didn't vote for Trump in 2016.
00:37:42.000But there's a bunch of people who are driven completely off the deep end.
00:37:45.000Max Boot wrote a piece today titled, Trump is running an openly racist campaign.
00:37:50.000He said the speech was openly racist, openly racist.
00:37:54.000He says, in his Friday night speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump unveiled a new set of enemies that he prefers to battle instead until November.
00:38:00.000His supporters ignored the actual dangers they faced as they packed in, mainly without masks, to listen to Trump invade against largely imaginary foes.
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00:41:32.000So now here's President Trump's speech.
00:41:33.000So President Trump goes to Mount Rushmore.
00:41:35.000There are a couple things about the speech that we should mention up front.
00:41:39.000I have suggested for a while that President Trump is doing something that is politically unwise when he has these mass rallies where a lot of people are not wearing masks.
00:41:45.000It just gives the media an excuse to blame the COVID-19 spread on him after spending weeks pretending that if you're protesting for the right reasons, then you're immune to COVID.
00:41:54.000There's a story over the weekend, the bubonic plague has broke out now in China, which is very scary until you realize that as long as we are protesting systemic American racism, we're all fine.
00:42:02.000If you go out in the streets and people have the bubos and they've got like the big old, they've got all of the various accoutrements of bubonic plague, everything is totally fine so long as you are protesting the right cause.
00:42:15.000As long as you're kneeling on the American flag, everything is totally cool.
00:42:18.000That comforted me a little bit, but if you go to a Trump rally, then you might get bubonic plague.
00:42:24.000It's not wise to play into that, but the speech itself is very good.
00:42:28.000And it points out the key problem in American society, which is, yes, there are a group of people in America right now who wish to see the union disintegrated.
00:42:36.000There are a group of people, I call them disintegrationists in my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, who want to see America's history or philosophy or culture destroyed.
00:42:55.000is watch CNN, where they put Independence Day in scare quotes.
00:42:58.000All you have to do is listen to Senator Tammy Duckworth, a sitting United States Senator, shift her position on Mount Rushmore from, I'm gonna celebrate Mount Rushmore five years ago, to maybe we should think about whether we need to pull down statues of George Washington.
00:43:10.000Nancy Pelosi, by the way, has said we ought to have those conversations as well.
00:43:13.000Yes, there is a move afoot, a very strong move to rewrite America's history, to rewrite the constitutional bargain, and to tear apart whatever semblance of unity we could possibly hold.
00:43:23.000So, against that backdrop, that's what Trump is speaking against.
00:43:28.000This fight was already going on before he entered office.
00:43:30.000In fact, Trump was the reaction to that.
00:43:33.000Trump was the reaction to the attempted rewriting of American history as evil and terrible and no good and very bad.
00:43:39.000The 1619 Project, which came about during Trump's presidency and was a reaction in large part to Trump, It's not as though the predicate for that hasn't been laid over the past decades.
00:44:10.000The men on the mountain were great men.
00:44:13.000That doesn't mean that they were sinless men, but they were great men.
00:44:15.000And pointing out they were great men does not mean that you have to overlook their sins.
00:44:18.000Here is President Trump talking about this yesterday.
00:44:22.000There could be no better place to celebrate America's independence than beneath this magnificent, incredible, majestic mountain monument to the greatest Americans who have ever lived.
00:44:37.000Today we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.
00:44:48.000I am here as your president to proclaim before the country and before the world, this monument will never be desecrated.
00:45:03.000Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed.
00:45:08.000Their achievements will never be forgotten.
00:45:12.000And Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom.
00:45:21.000Now, what's hilarious to me about the media reaction to this is that Trump is talking about people who literally are calling for the destruction of Mount Rushmore.
00:45:29.000They've said that Mount Rushmore is bad.
00:45:31.000There have been headlines from the Washington Post and the New York Times in the last week, saying it's on stolen Native American territory, which again, the New York Times is located in, last I checked, Manhattan, which was bought for a few beads.
00:45:43.000Okay, so the New York Times is free to hand over its building anytime it wants to Native tribes.
00:45:47.000I do not think they're going to do that anytime in the near future.
00:45:51.000But the media have said, well, who wants to tear down Mount Rushmore?
00:45:54.000Nobody wants to tear down Mount Rushmore.
00:45:55.000How could you even imply that people want to tear down Mount Rushmore?
00:45:58.000The same people who are upset with the implication that Trump is making that people want to tear down Mount Rushmore cannot understand why anybody would be upset with the sloganeering about Black Lives Matter because many of us are upset with the implication that there are a bunch of people in America who think black lives don't matter.
00:46:12.000That's the objection that people have to saying black lives matter.
00:46:14.000Not that they don't think black lives matter, but that they are annoyed by the implication that there are a bunch of Americans who think black lives don't matter.
00:46:20.000So the media read deeply into every implication that Trump says, and then ignore the fact that his implications happen to be true.
00:46:27.000Well, at the same time, ripping on conservatives who suggest that the implications of certain phrases are unsupported by evidence.
00:46:34.000Okay, Trump continues along these lines and he talks up July 4th.
00:46:37.000Again, all of this stuff is wildly uncontroversial.
00:46:39.000Now, okay, I want you to, let's see if you can spot it.
00:49:31.000It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence.
00:49:44.000They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said, all men are created equal.
00:49:54.000These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom.
00:50:00.000Our founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights given us by our creator in heaven.
00:50:11.000And that which God has given us, we will allow no one ever to take away, ever.
00:50:19.000Okay, so again, Nothing controversial here.
00:50:40.000It's not him creating figments of his imagination or fake enemies, as Max Boot suggests.
00:50:44.000Because I just spent I spent half an hour describing to you just the stuff that happened over the weekend that proves that what he is saying is not fake.
00:50:51.000Here's the president talking about people who wish to destroy our common history.
00:50:56.0001776 represented the culmination of thousands of years of Western civilization and the triumph of not only spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.
00:51:10.000And yet, as we meet here tonight, There is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure.
00:51:26.000Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, to fame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.
00:51:38.000Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, To face our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.
00:51:51.000Many of these people have no idea why they're doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing.
00:51:58.000They think the American people are weak, and soft, and submissive.
00:52:06.000But no, the American people are strong and proud, and they will not allow our country And all of its values, history, and culture to be taken from them.
00:52:39.000And if you don't believe me that it's real, ask the former editor of Bon Appetit, ask the guy from the Southern Food Association who's currently being canceled, ask the former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer or the former op-ed editor over at the New York Times.
00:52:48.000Why don't you ask Nicholas Christakis over at Yale?
00:53:18.000One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.
00:53:32.000This is the very definition of totalitarianism.
00:53:37.000And it is completely alien to our culture and to our values.
00:53:41.000And it has absolutely no place in the United States of America.
00:53:47.000So naturally, the media wished to ignore what Trump is saying here.
00:53:50.000So instead, what they decided they're going to do is just point out that he can't pronounce totalitarianism in that particular clip.
00:53:57.000They're going to say, cancel culture doesn't exist.
00:53:59.000Literally, there are people online whose entire job is to try and cancel other people.
00:54:03.000And literally their entire job is, all they do all day long, is they try and find a way to cancel members of the media they don't like, or outlets they don't like.
00:54:10.000And then they tweet out things like, cancel culture isn't real.
00:54:34.000And they said that this was a dark, divisive, and horrible speech.
00:54:37.000Here is the president suggesting, correctly, that cancel culture has now infused most of our major institutions.
00:54:43.000In our schools, our newsrooms, Even our corporate boardrooms.
00:54:49.000There is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance.
00:54:56.000If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished.
00:55:17.000This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.
00:55:27.000In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.
00:55:42.000To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue Symbol and memory of our national heritage.
00:56:26.000Okay, I'm going to play a clip now that is not only not racist, it is openly anti-racism, right?
00:56:34.000So here's President Trump speaking universal principles from our Declaration of Independence.
00:56:40.000And again, you tell me, where's the white supremacist message here?
00:56:44.000I've been told that this is a white supremacist speech.
00:56:46.000See if you can spot the white supremacist message embedded in this particular clip.
00:56:50.000We will state the truth in full without apology.
00:56:56.000We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on Earth.
00:57:04.000We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.
00:57:21.000We know that the American family is the bedrock of American life.
00:57:27.000We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed.
00:57:38.000Every child of every color, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of God.
00:57:46.000We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.
00:58:49.000This is American is apple pie, motherhood is good kind of stuff.
00:58:52.000Where is the racism in, we believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed.
00:58:58.000Every child of every color, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of God.
00:59:15.000And then he talked, he gave a list of people he considered American heroes.
00:59:18.000And in this list of people he considered American heroes, he names, and we'll count them, one, okay, Frederick Douglass, The Tuskegee Airmen, Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, because he named at least six black Americans.
00:59:38.000Also, I think he name-checked Ella Fitzgerald, too.
00:59:41.000So that's seven black Americans, plus Martin Luther King, who he name-checked, I think, three times in the speech.
00:59:47.000So in this deeply racist speech, he name-checks eight black people.
00:59:52.000Clearly, this man is a vicious, vicious racist.
00:59:54.000Clearly, he's a vicious, vicious racist.
00:59:58.000Again, this is all perfectly obvious stuff.
01:00:02.000The notion that this is a racist, fascistic speech is insane.
01:00:08.000He says at one point, this is at clip 20, he says, we must demand our children are taught once again to see America as did Martin Luther King.
01:00:18.000We must demand that our children are taught once again to see America As did Reverend Martin Luther King when he said that the founders had signed a promissory note to every future generation.
01:00:34.000Dr. King saw that the mission of justice required us to fully embrace our founding ideals.
01:00:49.000He called on his fellow citizens not to rip down their heritage, but to live up to their heritage.
01:00:57.000Above all, our children from every community must be taught that to be American is to inherit the spirit Sounds really dark and depressing, right?
01:01:14.000Dark, depressing, terrible, fascistic, racist, standing up for confederate monuments which you never mentioned not once in the entire speech, in which you discussed abolitionism and Abraham Lincoln multiple times.
01:01:23.000The media's lies are truly astonishing.
01:01:24.000And you know what the media's lies are really about?
01:01:26.000Really, in the end, they're about misdirection.
01:01:28.000There are misdirection from true problems occurring in the country because it is more comfortable to talk about tearing down the system than it is to talk about real problems that are afflicting real people in the United States.
01:01:36.000Over the weekend, a seven-year-old girl was shot to death in Chicago.
01:01:44.000And apparently, it doesn't deserve to be at the top of the news.
01:01:47.000What deserves to be at the top of the news is vague charges of systemic racism by police and defund the police, and the police are the bad guys.
01:01:53.000According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a seven-year-old girl died Saturday after being shot at a family Fourth of July party in Austin, the third weekend in a row in Chicago that's seen a child under 10 among the city's shooting victims.
01:02:03.000Clearly, this is all about the white supremacist system, right?
01:02:06.000And that's what we should be focusing on.
01:02:07.000The girl was playing on a sidewalk around 7 p.m.
01:02:09.000in the 100 block of North Latrobe Avenue when three men got out of a white car and shot more than 20 times in the direction of the people holding the party, a group the police said included many children.
01:02:18.000Well, the police said it, must've been the cops.
01:02:57.000I hear Black Lives Matter from the Black Lives Matter protesters.
01:02:59.000What did you do today to stop that shooting?
01:03:01.000Because on a statistical level, the people you ought to be worried about are the people who are murdered every day in places like Chicago.
01:03:08.000That doesn't mean you have to ignore police brutality.
01:03:10.000Police brutality should never be ignored.
01:03:12.000It doesn't mean that we should ignore a racial shooting if you find one.
01:03:16.000They're extremely rare if you can find one by the cops.
01:03:18.000It doesn't mean we should ignore one bad thing to focus on another thing.
01:03:21.000It does mean the lack of proportionality in terms of our attention does suggest something about your underlying view of the United States.
01:03:27.000Okay, over the weekend, an eight-year-old child was murdered near that Wendy's in Atlanta.
01:03:33.000Remember, how much time have we spent in this country talking about Rayshard Brooks?
01:03:37.000Rayshard Brooks is the man who attacked two police officers, stole a taser off one, fired at an officer, fired at another officer before he was shot.
01:03:58.000Well, the police identified the girl as Sequoia Turner.
01:04:01.000She was shot as she and her mom tried parking in a liquor store lot near an armed civilian's barricade around the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed.
01:04:09.000So the car was stopped by criminals who then shot into the car and murdered a child.
01:04:16.000When the driver attempted to enter a liquor store parking lot on the 1200 block of Pryor Road, police say he was confronted by a group of armed individuals who had blocked the entrance.
01:04:24.000By the way, the Democrats are considering the mayor of Atlanta as a possible VP candidate for Joe Biden.
01:04:29.000Protesters had recently erected illegal barricades, according to authorities, encircling the nearby Wendy's, where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer last month.
01:04:37.000At some point during the confrontation, according to the mayor, she said at least two men fired multiple times at the vehicle, killing an eight-year-old girl.
01:05:11.000- They killed my baby because she crossed the barrier and made a U-turn, you killed a child.
01:05:18.000She ain't do nothing to nobody. - They didn't give us time to make a U-turn.
01:05:22.000They started shoving on my car before we could even make a U-turn.
01:05:26.000Shooing my tires out, like why? - Black lives matter.
01:05:30.000- Okay, this is not, we should never, we should never ignore problems that are happening when it comes to, again, police brutality, or racism, or anything like that.
01:05:39.000Nobody wants to, including police officers.
01:05:42.000None of them want brutality and racism in their ranks.
01:05:46.000There are a few of them who are bad people, just like in every profession that has hundreds of thousands of employees, they're bad people.
01:05:52.000But the amount of attention that we in the United States are paying to the evils of police officers, when the solution to problems like the one you're having in Chicago or Atlanta is more police, not fewer, it demonstrates an underlying view of the country that is simply untenable and wrong.
01:06:05.000Alrighty, well, we'll be back here tomorrow with more content.
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