The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains. The radical view of American History is a web of lies. All perspective is removed. Every virtue is obscured. Every motive is twisted. Every fact is distorted. And every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition. This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore. They defiled the memory of washington, jefferson, lincoln, and roosevelt. Today, we will set history and historys record straight. [applause] pres. Trump before these figures were immortalized in stone, they were american giant American Giants in full flesh and blood, gallant men whose intrepid deeds unleashed the greatest leap of human advancement the world has ever known. Tonight, i will tell you, and most importantly, the youth of our nation, the true stories of these great, great men. From head to toe, George Washington represented the strength, grace, and dignity of the American People. From a small force of citizen farmers, he created the Continental Army out of nothing and rallied them to stand against the most powerful military on earth. Through eight long years, through the brutal winter at valley forge, through setback after setback on the field of battle, he led those patriots to ultimate triumph. When the army had dwindled to a few thousand men at christmas of 1776, when defeat seemed absolutely certain, he took what remained of his forces on a daring nighttime crossing of the delaware river. They marched through nine miles of frigid darkness, many without boots on their feet, leaving a trail of blood in the snow. In the morning, they seized victory at trenton after forcing the surrender of the most powerful empire on the planet at yorktown. General washington did not claim power, but simply returned to mount vernon as a private citizen. When called upon again, he presided over the Constitutional Convention in philadelphia and was unanimously elected our first president. [applause] pres. Trump when he stepped down after two terms, his former adversary, king george, called him the greatest man of the age. He remains first in our hearts to this day. For as long as americans love this land, we will honor and cherish the father of our country, George Washington. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump he will never be removed, abolished, and most of all, he will never be forgotten. [applause] pres. Trump thomas jefferson, the great thomas jefferson, was 33 years old when he traveled north to pennsylvania and brilliantly authored one of the greatest treasures of human history, the declaration of independence. He also drafted virginias constitution and conceived and wrote the virginia statute for religious freedom, a model for our cherished First Amendment. After serving as the first secretary of state and then Vice President , he was elected to the presidency. He ordered american warriors to crush barbary pirates. He doubled the size of our nation with the louisiana purchase. And he sent the famous explorers lewis and clark into the west on a daring expedition to the pacific ocean. He was an architect, an inventor, a diplomat, a scholar, the founder of one of the worlds great universities, and an ardent defender of liberty. Americans will forever admire the author of American Freedom, thomas jefferson. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump and he too will never, ever, be abandoned by us. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump abraham lincoln, the savior of our union, was a selftaught country lawyer who grew up in a log cabin on the american frontier. The first republican president , he rose to high office from obscurity, based on a force and clarity of his antislavery convictions. Very, very strong convictions. He signed the law that built the transcontinental railroad. He signed the homestead act, given to some incredible scholars as simply defined what ordinary Citizens Free land to settle anywhere in the american west. And he led the country through the darkest hours of American History, giving every ounce of strength that he had to ensure that government of the people, by the people, and for the people did not perish from this earth. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump he served as commanderinchief of the u. S. Armed forces during our bloodiest war, the struggle that saved our union and extinguished the evil of slavery. Over 600,000 died in that war. More than 20,000 were killed or wounded in a single day at single day in antietam. At gettysburg, 157 years ago, the union bravely withstood an assault of nearly 15,000 men and threw back pickets charge. Lincoln won the civil war. He issued the emancipation proclamation. He led the passage of the 13th amendment, abolishing slavery for all time. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump and ultimately, his determination to preserve our nation and our union cost him his life. For as long as we live, americans will uphold and revere the immortal memory of president abraham lincoln. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump Theodore Roosevelt exemplified the unbridled confidence of our National Culture and identity. He saw the towering grandeur of Americas Mission in the world and he pursued it with Overwhelming Energy and zeal. As a Lieutenant Colonel during the spanishamerican war, he led the famous rough riders to defeat the enemy at san juan hill. He cleaned up corruption as Police Commissioner of new york city, then served as the governor of new york, Vice President , and at 42 years old, became the youngest ever president of the United States. [applause] pres. Trump he sent our great new naval fleet around the globe to announce americas arrival as a world power. He gave us many of our National Parks, including the grand canyon. He oversaw the construction of the aweinspiring panama canal. And he is the only person ever awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize and the congressional medal of honor. He was American Freedom personified in full. The American People will never relinquish the bold, beautiful, and untamed spirit of Theodore Roosevelt. [applause] pres. Trump no movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American Legacies can possibly have a love of america at its heart. Cant happen. No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future. The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society. It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our free and Inclusive Society into a place of repression, domination, and exclusion. They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced. [cheers and applause] [chanting usa] we love you pres. Trump thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Build the wall pres. Trump we will state the truth in full without apology. We declare that the United States of america is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on earth. We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on judeochristian principles. And we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world. We know that the American Family is the bedrock of american life. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we recognize the solemn right and moral duty of every nation to secure its borders. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump and we are building the wall. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we remember that governments exist to protect the safety and happiness of their own people. A nation must care for its own citizens first. We must take care of america first. Its time. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion and creed. Every child of every color, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of god. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture. We embrace tolerance, not prejudice. We support the courageous men and women of law enforcement. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we will never abolish our police or our great second amendment, which gives us the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we believe that our children should be taught to love their country, honor their history, and respect our Great American flag. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we stand tall. We stand proud. And we only kneel to almighty god. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump this is who we are. This is what we believe. And these are the values that will guide us as we strive to build an even better and greater future. Those who seek to erase our heritage want americans to forget our pride and our great dignity so that we can no longer understand ourselves or americas great destiny. In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for country and that we feel for each other. Their goal is not a better america. Their goal is to end america. [crowd booing] pres. Trump in its place, they want power for themselves. But just as patriots did in centuries past, the American People will stand in their way. And we will win and win quickly and with great dignity. [applause] pres. Trump we will never let them rip americas heroes from our monuments or from our hearts. By tearing down washington and jefferson, these radicals would tear down the very heritage for which men gave their lives to win the civil war. They would erase the memory that inspired those soldiers to go to their deaths, singing these words of the battle hymn of the republic as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free while god is marching on. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump they would tear down the principles that propelled the abolition of slavery and ultimately around the world, ending an evil institution that had plagued humanity for thousands and thousands of years. Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther king used to express his dream and the ideas that were the foundation of the Righteous Movement for civil rights. They would tear down the belief, the beliefs, culture, and identity that made america the most vibrant and Tolerant Society in the history of the earth. My fellow americans, it is time to speak up loudly and strongly and powerfully and defend the integrity of our country. [cheers and applause] [chanting usa ] pres. Trump it is time for our politicians to summon the bravery and determination of our american ancestors. It is time. It is time to plant our flag and to protect the greatest of this nation for citizens of every race, in every city, and every part of this glorious land. For the sake of our honor, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our union, we must protect and preserve our history, our heritage, and our great heroes. Here tonight before the eyes of our forefathers, americans declare again, as we did 244 years ago, that we will not be tyrannized. We will not be demeaned. And we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen. [cheers and applause] [chanting usa ] pres. Trump we will proclaim the ideals of the declaration of independence and we will Never Surrender the spirit and the courage and the cause of july 4, 1776. Upon this ground, we will stand firm and unwavering. In the face of lies meant to divide us, demoralize us and diminish us, we will show that the story of america unites us, inspires us, includes us all, and makes everyone free. We must demand that our children are taught once again to see america, as did reverend Martin Luther king, when he said that the founders signed a promissory note to every future generation. Dr. King saw that the mission of justice required us to fully embrace our founding ideals. Those ideals are so important to us. The founding ideals. He called on his fellow citizens not to rip down their heritage, but to live up to their heritage. [applause] pres. Trump above all, our children from every Community Must be taught that to be american is to inherit the spirit of the most adventurous and confident people ever to walk the face of the earth. Americans are the people who pursued our manifest destiny across the ocean into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies, and even into the stars. We are the country of andrew jackson, ulysses s grant, and frederick douglass. We are the land of while bill hickok and while bill hook hickock andbill buffalo bill cody. We are the nation that gave rise to the wright brothers, the tuskegee airmen, harriet tubman, clara barton, jesse owens, george patton, general george patton. The great louis armstrong, alan shepard, elvis presley, and muhammad ali. And only america could have produced them all. No other place. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we are the culture that put up the hoover dam, laid down the highways, sculpted the skyline of manhattan. We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream. It was called las vegas in the nevada desert. Who built up miami from the florida marsh and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. We settled the wild west, won two world wars, landed american astronauts on the moon, and one day very soon we will plant our flag on mars. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump we gave the world the poetry of walt whitman, the stories of mark twain, the songs of irving berlin. The voice of ella fitzgerald, the style of frank sinatra, the comedy of bob hope, the power of the saturn 5 rocket, the toughness of the ford f150 [applause] and the awesome might of the american aircraft carriers. [applause] americans must never lose sight of this miraculous story. We should never lose sight of it. Nobody has ever done it like we have done it. So today, under the Authority Vested in me as president of the United States [cheers and applause] pres. Trump i am announcing the creation of a new monument to the giants of our past. I am signing an executive order to establish the National Guard of american heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest americans to ever live. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump from this night and from this magnificent place, let us go forward, united in our purpose, and rededicated in our resolve. We will raise the next generation of american patriots. We will write the next thrilling chapter of the american adventure. And we will teach our children to know that they live in a land of legends, that nothing can stop them, and that no one can hold them down. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump they will know that in america, you can do anything, you can be anything, and together, we can achieve anything. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump uplifted by the titans of Mount Rushmore, we will find unity that no one expected. We will make strides that no one thought possible. This country will be everything that our citizens have hoped for for so many years and that our enemies fear, because we will never forget that the American Freedom exists for american greatness. And thats what we have, american greatness. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump centuries from now, our legacy will be the cities we built, the champions we forged, the good that we did, and the monuments we created to inspire us all. My fellow citizens, americas destiny is in our sights. Americas heroes are embedded in our hearts. Americas future is in our hands. And ladies and gentlemen, the best is yet to come. [cheers and applause] [chanting usa ] pres. Trump this has been a great honor for the first lady and myself to be with you. I love your state. I love this country. Id like to wish everybody a very happy fourth of july. To all, god bless you. God bless your families. God bless our great military. And God Bless America. Thank you very much. [applause] colors on the street red, white, and blue people shuffling their feet people sleeping in their shoes theres a lot of people saying wed be better off dead keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world announcer ladies and gentlemen, and americans of all ages, welcome to south dakotas Mount Rushmore fireworks celebration. Over the decades, Mount RushmoreNational Memorial has grown in fame as a symbol of america, a symbol of freedom and hope for people from all cultures and backgrounds. Tonight, we celebrate our nations birthday with family and friends across this great land. And now, look to the sky, high above Mou