This is terrible. The military was open to considering this. Trump just cares about the bigots who are a large part of his base. Biden should form a panel to come up with names for the bases that would be implemented on January 20, 2021 if Biden wins. Trump is an impediment to progress.
Predictably, the president of The United States stands firmly on the side of white supremacy https://t.co/9DFmzG0ZFD
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) June 10, 2020
Things President Trump is against:
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) June 10, 2020
– changing Confederate names of U.S. Army bases
– removing Confederate statues and monuments
– athletes silently protesting police brutality and racial injustice
– putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill
NEW: President Trump says he opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases https://t.co/XrOSQ3I8wE pic.twitter.com/Mm3zeFpTl2
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 10, 2020
People around the president have described this as his worst moment since Charlottesville in 2017. Here's the president invoking the same argument he did back then. https://t.co/kawSjNxrFp
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 10, 2020
The president digging into "heritage" as he did in 2017 after Charlottesville, telling his advisers it was a good fight for him. https://t.co/kawSjNxrFp
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 10, 2020
It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our Legendary Military Bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc. These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
.@nielslesniewski asks @PressSec if Trump would veto a measure renaming a fort for “a general who won the Civil War.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 10, 2020
Answer is yes.
McEnany: "To suggest these forts are somehow inherently racist and their names need to be changed is a complete disrespect to the men and women, who the last bit of American land they saw before they went overseas and lost their lives were these forts" pic.twitter.com/4pMAJe5fsd
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) June 10, 2020
Kayleigh McEnany then reads it, says it is “directly from President. He spent a good bit of time working on that.” https://t.co/rLZbwIWmDA
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 10, 2020
Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who is open to removing Confederate leaders’ names from military bases, was just in the Capitol meeting with senators about defense appropriations. He ignored a question from @tedbarrettcnn about Trump’s opposition to removing the Confederate names
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 10, 2020
In 2019 @PRRIpoll, 90% of Republicans who rely mostly on Fox, 91% of Repub evangelical Christians AND about 3/4 of both non-Fox and non-evangelical Rs said confederate flag was a symbol of Southern pride, not of racism. A reminder of how central these issues are to Trump-era GOP. https://t.co/zOGWXkiD2x
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 10, 2020
“We do not live in a country to which Braxton Bragg, Henry L. Benning, or Robert E. Lee can serve as an inspiration.” A remarkable call from David Petraeus to rename the 10 Army installations that honor Confederates https://t.co/6IGmMOZSCP
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) June 9, 2020
Sad! 