Trump's First Victory Tour Speech Outlines His Menacing Vision for an Angry, Insular America...

[DonViejo]

Trump’s First “Victory Tour” Speech Outlines His Menacing Vision for an Angry, Insular America in a Hostile World

By Elliot Hannon

If Thursday night in Cincinnati was any indication, Donald Trump’s “thank you tour” is (shockingly) going to be short on actual thank yous. There will, of course, be the perfunctory “thank you” at the top of the hour to his Rust Belt supporters that managed to drag Trump across the finish line despite appealing to millions fewer American voters than his opponent. But after that, it’s all Trump, as you’ve seen him a million times before: prancing, preening, ungracious, settling scores, recounting old grudges, and outlining a vision of an American future that would seem just laughably implausible, if it weren’t so menacing. The speech felt part talk show, part declaration of war on some undefined, unrecognizable “global” enemy. It makes sense then that Trump theatrically announced his secretary of defense pick on stage Thursday night.

There was no discussion of the tens of millions of Americans that did not vote for him, but, now, must live with him, be represented by him, and have their lives shaped by him. There was no talk of global leadership; instead there was nationalist bluster that sprouted into outright chauvinism. “There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship,” Trump scowled at one point. “We pledge allegiance to one flag. And that flag is the American flag.” That was received by chants of “U-S-A!” from the crowd.

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But I know that if we set aside our differences. And we do have differences. We're a very divided nation. But we're not going to be divided for long… They separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, by place of birth. We spend too much time focusing on what divides us. Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us. Do you know what that is? America, America. It is America… You hear a lot of talk about how we're becoming a globalized world. But the relationships people value in this country are local. Family, cities, state, country. They are local. We'll compete in the world. We want to compete in the world, but we're going to compete in the world where it is a two-way run and not a one way road. The advantages are going to come back to our country. And they haven't for many, many years. There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag. And that flag is the American flag. ("USA" chants.) From now on it is going to be America first. OK? America first. We are going to put ourselves first. We seek peace and harmony with the nations of the world. But that means recognizing the right of every country, including our own, to look after its citizens.

Trump ungraciously took a moment to bask in his victory over Hillary Clinton: “I'm going to discuss our action plan to make America great again. We're going to discuss. Although we did have a lot of fun fighting Hillary, didn't we?

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[Solly Mack]

1. "They separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, by place of birth."

"They"?

He is one of the "They".

Bannon, billionaires, white supremacists, and build that wall.

Feh

[Roland99]

2. Quite the forked tongue he has

[loyalsister]

3. I think I've heard that before...

"Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."

http://obamaspeeches.com/002-Keynote-Address-at-the-2004-Democratic-National-Convention-Obama-Speech.htm