This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the huge divide over President Trump’s 2020 pivot to the “cancel culture” in America displayed in his speeches at Mount Rushmore and on July Fourth.
We feature PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor condemning Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech and his depiction of the United States as a nation worthy of pride. On MSNBC, she claimed that Trump was perpetuating the “lie” that the nation “treated men and women equally, that we founded this country just by our own wits,” as she added that “we’re seeing a celebration of America’s independence on land that was stolen from Native Americans.”
Referring to the carvings in the mountainside of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, Alcindor said it was important to note that two of them owned slaves and that Roosevelt “oversaw the desecration of native lands.”
Alcindor is the recent recipient of the “overall excellence in White House coverage” award from the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Alcindor on Friday night, as MSNBC aired a panel discussion while the Mount Rushmore ceremony began:
“I think what we’re seeing is a president who’s determined to fly in the face of … people who are saying that there’s really a myth of America — that this idea that America treated people well, that they treated men and women equally, that we founded this country just by our own wits, that that is actually a lie and that in fact, what we’re seeing is a celebration of America’s independence on land that was stolen from Native Americans, and it’s over — and it’s being seen and overlooked by two presidents — they’re figures, rather — that owned slaves and a third president in Roosevelt, who talked about going westward and who oversaw the desecration of native lands.
“You saw so many people in this country, especially people of color, look really, really disturbed when the president and then-candidate Trump started saying, ‘Make America Great Again’ — because, of course, the quick question was, ‘Well, what part of America and what period are you talking about? Is it when African Americans were enslaved? Is it when women couldn’t vote? Is it when Native American people were literally run off their lands?’ … He’s sitting somewhere in history between George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, and he’s really fitting in this history that is, in some ways, a Republican history about the idea that they’re really looking at white resentment.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Alcindor displayed the disrespect for our nation’s history — full of scorn for its heroes and emphasis on the sinister view of any achievements — that President Trump was reciting in taking on the Left in the very speech Alcindor was denouncing. Her take illustrated how the media elite are not just opposed to Trump’s reelection but are allied with the far-left who are trying to destroy the legitimacy of the nation.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
