Trump: "we must cherish our history"

[SethH]

My administration is restoring the sacred bonds of loyalty between this nation and its citizens, but our citizens must also restore the bonds of trust and loyalty between one another. We must love each other, respect each other, and cherish our history and our future together. So important. We have to respect each other. Ideally, we have to love each other.


What can cherishing our history have to do with the events at Charlottesville, other than the removal of the Lee statue? I.e., when he says there is blame on "all sides", he means that some of the blame belongs to the people who got the statue removed.

As a tangent, has anyone noted that the "General Lee" in the Dukes of Hazzard was a Dodge Charger?

[BigmanPigman]

1. He doesn't cherish our country so he leads by example.

[wishstar]

2. Weird statement- 'cherish our history" -referring to supporting keeping Confederate monuments?

Don't get what the meaning is of his phrase "sacred bonds of loyalty " refers to either, but I'm not up on the alt-right code phrases

[SethH]

3. i don't get that either

Like you, I don't speak Bannon. I don't understand it at any level. Who broke the bonds, Obama? And how is he restoring them?

[leftstreet]

4. Yeah, and "sacred bonds of loyalty" wtf is that?

This just sounds too creepy to be real

[Boomerproud]

5. So wrong-headed, but not the least surprising.

The Trail of Tears
Slavery
Women have few or no legal rights
Japanese internment camps
etc etc etc

Yeah, cherish those Donnie.

[Coventina]

6. How about our history of kicking Nazi ass?

That is the history I cherish.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Robert E Lee statue

Trump is talking about agreeing with the Alt Right and the whole reason they were marching. This was about them marching in support of Robert E Lee's status remaining.

[hlthe2b]

8. Dog whistle---"cherish our history" is his nod to their attempts to prevent removal Confed monuments

David Duke and his fellow white supremacists certainly get the messagee