In a baleful 4th of July speech to a crowd of about 3,700 people at Mount Rushmore, Trump rails against Democrats and warns that “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.”
In his second attempt to kickstart his campaign after the Tulsa debacle, Trump does not mention the soaring COVID case numbers that prompted health officials to caution against big July 4 gatherings.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who says Trump said he wanted his own face on the mountain monument, ingratiates herself by giving Trump a two-foot sculpture of Mount Rushmore with his head added.
Responding to the recent tearing down of several confederate statues, Trump declares he will build a “National Garden of American Heroes” - a park filled with hundreds of statues of “the greatest Americans to ever live," from Antonin Scalia to Alex Trebek. (It is never built.)
