On Saturday, MSNBC’s “AM Joy” guest host Tiffany Cross blasted off President Donald Trump’s Mount Rushmore rally as an independence day celebration for “white men.”
The host responded to Trump’s weekend rally, claiming that the country’s fourth of July celebration is only for whites. Cross began by saying that “Independence for white men at a site described by one Native American activist as, quote, ‘a symbol of white supremacy.”
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Cross even lamented Trump’s decision to host his rally on Mount Rushmore, stating that it will only serve as a reminder of his Juneteenth campaign stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She explained that the town became the site of the 1921 massacre of what was once considered as a thriving black business community. Cross said, “ It’s that cruel, tired and familiar jab to black, brown and indigenous people,” adding that the monument was only a reminder of a “60-foot face” of slave owners.
Even establishment media, such as CNN have demonized the monument ahead of the President’s independence day rally. Author Betsy Klein claimed that Mount Rushmore’s “dark history” became more visible during the President’s rally. Klein explained that Trump, who had become notable for his racist remarks, has proved his moral agenda by defending “racist monuments” despite increasing demands to topple it down.
Other media outlets such as the New York Times and The Guardian have quoted Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and leader of the Indigenous activist group NDN Collective, who claimed that the U.S. monument served as a glaring reminder of “white supremacy.” Tilsen demanded that he wanted to see the monument destroyed in hopes that the land will be returned to “indigenous people.”
However, the President was having none of it. Instead, Trump vowed to protect the monument from being “desecrated” promising that Mount Rushmore would not be “removed, abolished, or most of all forgotten.” During his Friday’s speech, Trump continued to remind the public on what the monument represents “They were American giants in full flesh and blood. Gallant men, whose intrepid deeds unleashed the greatest leap of human advancement the world has ever known,” the President said.
Trump then proceeded to tell the stories of the four great men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. He added that the activists were simply misguided.
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Following his speech, Trump announced on Saturday the partial list of “icons” which will be included in the National Garden of Heroes as a part of the Independence Day celebration. These include Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Christa McAuliffe, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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