Donald Trump, famous for ordering a violent mob to attempt to storm Congress and overturn the results of the 2020 election, took a small break from rage tweeting about sending in another 10,000 soldiers to quell a protest that has left upwards of 20 cars burnt, to honor the memories of the treasonous leaders of a violent, years long insurrection that left roughly seven hundred thousand Americans dead.
When questioned about the apparent hypocrisy of honoring murderous traitors while wildly overstepping his boundaries as president to protect trash cans from being burnt in a two block region of Los Angeles, Trump simply shrugged and said "Look, this LA thing has got everyone distracted from the fact that I still haven't released the Epstein files. I've got to milk it for all it's worth."
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/military-base-names-robert-e-lee-trump-b2767582.htmlPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is restoring the names of Confederate traitors who fought to keep Black people enslaved to American military bases across the country despite Congress mandating their removal in a law enacted over his veto five years ago.
Speaking to active-duty troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — which had been renamed Fort Liberty under President Joe Biden — Trump told the assembled soldiers he would also be restoring the names of Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort AP Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee.
All of those bases are in the south — which formed the former pro-slavery confederacy — and were named by southern lawmakers who sought to honor the “Lost Cause” of the fight against emancipating Black slaves.
“We won a lot of battles out of those forts — it's no time to change,” said Trump, who said he was “very superstitious” and therefore against renaming the bases despite Congress ordering it done in the waning months of his first term.
