Any visitors hoping to grab a closer look at the tanks and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington today will likely be disappointed, as President Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” has apparently cut off the area of the speech from the general public.
Tagged: Election 2020, Independence Day, Trump campaign
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Looks like Trump was finally able to build that fence he’s always wanted.
Man I really messed up that post. Haven’t posted in a while.
(Whispers) She’s right. https://t.co/UDNgZSLUZo
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) July 4, 2019
Introducing the officers from the military, making it seem like they chose to attend.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
"fleet loomed dangerously"
Completely apart from how I feel about Trump, I am always surprised at how bad his speechwriting shop is. He's hard to write for, without doubt, but the speeches are just not well-written speeches.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
"It is its strongest now."
If that line was delivered as written, this is what I mean.
Now we're on to Lewis and Clark.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
Thomas Edison? Bell? "A wake of fire and nerves of steel?"
Who wrote this dreck?— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
The lights of Broadway, the soundstages of Hollywood, the Cliche Mines of Idaho
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
This is seriously a bad speech. I don't mean jingoistic or mean or evil. It's not really any of that. (Yet.) I mean it's "fire the speechwriters" bad, like it was written by a committee of AP History students who crammed for the exam this morning.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
"And, of course, John Glenn."
Uh, okay
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
Amelia Earhart?
forget it, he's rolling
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
This is like a bad SOTU speech without any of the policy.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
Oh no. No no no. Making SecDef and CJCS join him on stage. This is really, really inappropriate.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
This has gone from a bad SOTU to a bad Veteran's Day speech. This is really nuts.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
Obviously he didn’t write any of this speech. This is all news to him. Even he seems bored reciting it. I’m surprised he hasn’t injected “and few people know this” at least a half dozen times.
I almost spit my drink all over my computer screen when he was urging people to join the military. “And you should!” said the bone spur POTUS.
"Two bicycle makers from…"
"magnificent machines, our flyboys"Fire every single one of the speechwriters. That is, if you can fire unpaid interns.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
This isn't an *offensive* speech – yet – it's just weird. Very very weird.
Ploesti? One of the interns must have had a test this week.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
This is a sad, desperate attempt to coat the president in military cred, and it's embarrassing.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
I have not yet begun to fight
Don't give up the ship
Damn the torpedoes
Midway
D-Day
Sea Bees
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
This militarizing of July 4 is very… Soviet.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
The shoes of Tripoli. Leathernecks. The Halls of Montezuma. Belleau Wood. Iwo Jima.
This speech will be studied in Bad Writing Classes for centuries to come.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2019
When is it going to rain? Please, let it rain. Make it stop.
People are taking issue with my use of “Soviet“ to describe the Trump speech. (👉 @JayCaruso). I spent years studying the Soviet state, including listening to all of their speeches. Military glory was a staple of their claim to legitimacy. It permeated everything. /1
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 5, 2019
Having the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff flank you while you recount tales of military glory is very, very Soviet. Take it from an expert. /3
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 5, 2019
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