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The mainstream press all agrees that the Mount Rushmore speech was racially divisive, so let’s look at the evidence as available to us from the text of said speech
“Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity.”
“No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.”
“They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: ‘...all men are created equal.’”
“These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom.”
“Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven.”
“Seventeen seventy-six represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization and the triumph not only of spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.”
“We will state the truth in full, without apology: We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on Earth.”
“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.”
“We embrace tolerance, not prejudice.”
“they would erase the memory that inspired those soldiers to go to their deaths, singing these words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: ‘As He died to make men Holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on.’”
“They would tear down the principles that propelled the abolition of slavery in America and, ultimately, around the world, ending an evil institution that had plagued humanity for thousands and thousands of years.”
“Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream, and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights.”
“They would tear down the beliefs, culture, and identity that have made America the most vibrant and tolerant society in the history of the Earth.”
“It is time to plant our flag and protect the greatest of this nation, for citizens of every race, in every city, and every part of this glorious land.”
“We will proclaim the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, and we will never surrender the spirit and the courage and the cause of July 4th, 1776.”
“We must demand that our children are taught once again to see America as did Reverend Martin Luther King, when he said that the Founders had signed “a promissory note” to every future generation.”
“Dr. King saw that the mission of justice required us to fully embrace our founding ideals. Those ideals are so important to us — the founding ideals.”
“We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass. We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. We are the nation that gave rise to the Wright Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen, Harriet Tubman...
../Clara Barton, Jesse Owens, George Patton — General George Patton — the great Louie Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, and Mohammad Ali.”
You can say the speech was insincere, or his tweets matter more, or he doesn’t have the credibility to make this sort of speech, but you can’t say it was racially divisive.
Yet this is exactly what people whose job is supposed to be *reporting the news* all said
And, by the way, the most ardent adherents of the woke left that he so sharply criticized tend to be white people
