Twitter, as it does, asked Donald Trump on Monday when “Gettysburg” began to stick to the trend on the social media platform thanks to the president’s most recent tweet about the election. Trump announced that the position would soon arrive in which he would settle for the GOP nomination for re-election, and tweeted that “we have reduced the opening speech for the presidential nomination, which will be delivered on the last night of the Convention (Thursday), in two positions: the great battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the White House in Washington , DC We will soon announce the resolution! »
The suggestion that he might present his acceptance speech in Gettysburg, that of a literal war provoked by the Confederates in the south, naturally gave way to widespread criticism. At Twitter’s apparent request, many experts have pointed out how Trump’s crude location selection attests to his recent defense of the Confederate habit (such as monument coverage and the denunciation of the Black Lives Matter movement), as well as his general fascist-style habit. The results? Well, here are some sharp reviews:
Gettysburg would be the choice, given the recent defense through the camp president, the generals who lost this war https://t.co/vKbzGaCnrU
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 10, 2020
You know your team lost in Gettysburg, don’t you? pic.twitter.com/F3wkxIdYdu
– Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) August 10, 2020
If you give the speech in Gettysburg, you will surely be required by law to wear a fake beard.
– Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) 10 August 2020
but gettysburg is one of the biggest defeats of your base https://t.co/cqYmqvHt5b
– Oliver Willis (@owillis) 10 August 2020
While Trump’s habit and the defense of white supremacy remain shocking, this is not unexpected right now. Trump has fought several times over the years to maintain the Confederate army’s past: veto-threatening spending seeking to rename army bases to generals like General Robert E. Lee, in his long-standing defense of the presence of Confederate statues in the United States, dating back to at least 2017. His fierce defense of the symbols and names that were noted through the Confederate army surprised for years, as he contemplated that the Confederacy was, unfortunately, pro-slavery and compiled through white supremacists. He also defended the lives of prominent Confederate generals, whether he fully understood what they represented or not.
But tweeting that Gettysburg is competing where it needs to deliver its acceptance speech is particularly ironic given that the Confederate army lost to the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. By calling this the “big battlefield,” Trump now brailingly supports the sectarian ideals that have risen up in the Confederate army, and is doing so at a time when the country is justice for violence against blacks.
But some onlookers voiced more serious concerns with Trump’s possible presence at Gettysburg, given that more than 3,500 Union soldiers are buried at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Many noted that Trump giving the speech atop their many graves is a sign of disrespect, given what the Union stood for. Others likened his possible presence as the beginnings of another Civil War.
The Republican National Convention is held on Monday, August 24 and ends on Thursday, August 27, when Trump makes his announcement. Until then, one can only hope that he has literally chosen any place other than the site of a Confederate-induced war for his acceptance speech.
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