President Trump says he would “not even consider” renaming Army bases that honor Confederate leaders who fought to protect slavery and uphold white supremacy despite nationwide reckoning over racial discrimination following the killing of George Floyd.
In Virginia, for example, Gov. Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. LeeThe Navy's top admiral announced Tuesday that he was drafting an order to ban the display of Confederate flags from all public spaces and work areas on Navy installations. Earlier this year, the Marine Corps commandant announced he was banning Confederate paraphernalia from installations.
"He does, as I noted at the top of this briefing, fervently stand against the renaming of our forts, these great American fortresses where literally some of these men and women who lost their lives as they went out to Europe, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and all across this world to win world wars on behalf of freedom," McEnany said.
“Gone With the Wind,” the 1939 movie based off the bestselling novel that romanticizes the Civil War, saying that they would bring the film back with a discussion of its historical context.“Gone With the Wind,” suggesting earlier this year that he would have preferred it to win the Oscar for best picture over “Parasite,” the first film not in the English language to win."Gone With the Wind" was not eligible for an Academy Award last season, as it was released more than 80 years ago.
"Should George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison be erased from history?" McEnany added.
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