President Donald Trump rejected the notion that “America is merely an idea,” arguing instead that the nation’s character and roots are grounded in the British view of liberty.
“America is an idea” is a phrase Joe Biden used in his campaign launch video in 2019. He then utilized it throughout his presidency and included it in his farewell letter last year as he was leaving office.
Biden also liked to point out, as he did in that letter, “We’ve never fully lived up to this sacred idea,” regarding the truths contained in the Declaration of Independence.
Newsflash: The Dems trample that sacred idea from their positions of power.
However, during a Tuesday ceremony at the White House to honor King Charles III, Trump chose to emphasize what the founders got right.
He contended that the American Revolution was actually an outgrowth of the English love of liberty developed well before July 4, 1776.
“Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British King might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence — but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate,” the president said.
“Long before Americans had a nation or a Constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea,” he continued.
“For nearly two centuries before the Revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride,” Trump said.
The British founded their first permanent colony in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, followed by Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620.
Trump next addressed Biden’s characterization of America.
“In recent years, we’ve often heard it said that America is merely an idea. But the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776. The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic,” the president said.
“Fate drew a long arc from the meadow at Runnymede to the streets of Philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the British code that no man should be denied either justice or right,” Trump added.
Sure beats Obama’s apology tour and ‘isn’t America awful’ speeches, and the Dem’s “America was never that great”, and Biden’s unhinged rants against American citizens.
America is back.