The President and First Lady started their patriotic and thrilling Independence Day celebrations on July 3rd at Mt Rushmore in South Dakota.
in a packed amphitheater in front of Mount Rushmore, the celebration featured fireworks and patriotic songs performed by a military band.
In a speech introducing the President, Kristi Noem the governor of South Dakota defended America’s founders against an “organized, coordinated campaign” to eliminate them from history.
Noem said, "Rather than looking to the past to help improve our future, some are trying to wipe away the lessons of history — lessons that we should be teaching our children and our grandchildren.”
"This is being done deliberately to discredit America’s founding principles by discrediting the individuals who formed them so that America can be remade in a very different political image,” she said.
She admonished anti-American leftists who in recent weeks -- following the death of George Floyd -- have been smearing our founding fathers and taking down their statues. “Our Founders had their flaws, certainly, but to use those flaws to condemn their ideals is unjust and self-defeating,” Noem said.
The Governor introduced President Trump who she describes as "Someone who strives valiantly; who knows great enthusiasms; who spends himself in a worthy cause, and who has firmly and repeatedly stated his commitment to place Americans, American liberty, American safety, and the American Constitution before anything else.”
In a powerful, inspiring and patriotic speech, the President blasted the far left marxist mobs that have been rioting and looting in recent weeks. He ripped their "merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children."
The President said: "Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive. But 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."
Trump blasted the "cancel culture,"in our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms," whre he says, "there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance."
The President condemned left-wing indoctrination in schools. "Our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains."
"The radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition," he said.
In the roaring 42 minutes speech, the President declared: "We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God."
Trump announced an executive order establishing a National Garden of American Heroes, a monument to honor the "greatest Americans who ever lived."
Statues in the garden will include civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In his main 4th of July speech at the 'Salute to America' celebration on the South Lawn of the White House, the President also warned of the threat from the "radical left."
"The Marxists. The anarchists. The agitators. The looters, and people who in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing,” he said.
The patriotic Independence Day celebration featured a performance by the US Army's Golden Knights parachute team, who floated through the air carrying an American flag; a military air show that included dozens of different fighter aircraft -- from world war II to the present -- flying across the sky in formations.
In his speech, Trump addressed the fight against wuhanvirus pandemic. "We got hit by the virus that came from China," he said.
He said, "there were no test for a new virus, but now we have tested almost 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless."
Trump slammed the media "who falsely and consistently label their opponents as racists."
"The more you lie, the more you slander, the more you try to demean and divide, the more we will work hard to tell the truth, and we will win," he said. "We want to bring the country together, and a free and open media will make this task a very easy one."
The president declared: "Today, we thank God for the gift of life and for the blessing of liberty. We honor the legends of our history, the glories of our founding fathers, and the giants of the past, and the heroes of today who keep us safe, who keep us strong and proud, and who keep us free."
First Lady Melania Trump and the President invited frontline workers -- police, doctors, nurses and military members -- with their families, to the White House to watch the airshows and fireworks.