Trump Decries 'Desecration' of Robert E. Lee Statue

[Dos Equis]

What did they really accomplish? 

Trump Decries 'Desecration' of Robert E. Lee Statue

The headless statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the empty base on which it stood in Richmond, Va., on Sept. 8, 2021. (Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP)
By Eric Mack    |   Wednesday, 08 September 2021

Lamenting the taking down and "complete desecration" of a Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump warned that the "radical left" is working to destroy American "history and heritage."

"Just watched as a massive crane took down the magnificent and very famous statue of 'Robert E. Lee On His Horse' in Richmond, Virginia," Trump wrote in a statement from his Save America PAC. "It has long been recognized as a beautiful piece of bronze sculpture.

''To add insult to injury, those who support this 'taking' now plan to cut it into three pieces, and throw this work of art into storage prior to its complete desecration."

Hundreds of onlookers erupted in cheers and song as the 21-foot-tall bronze figure of the Civil War Confederate general was lifted off a pedestal and lowered to the ground Wednesday.

"Robert E. Lee is considered by many generals to be the greatest strategist of them all," Trump's statement continued. "President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and except for Gettysburg, would have won the war.

''He should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war was over, ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation and imploring his soldiers to do their duty in becoming good citizens of this country," the statement read.

The removal marked a major victory for activists seeking to remove historical connections to the Confederacy and slavery.

"Our culture is being destroyed and our history and heritage, both good and bad, are being extinguished by the radical left, and we can't let that happen!" Trump's statement concluded. "If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago. What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don't have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!"

Trump issued a rebuke of "television generals" in an exclusive interview Tuesday night on Newsmax's "Rob Schmitt Tonight," saying that Chinese President Xi Jinping might even be inspired now to invade Taiwan because of the U.S. military generals' "incompetence and the weakness."

"It could happen, when he looks at Afghanistan, when he looks at the incompetence of our television generals," Trump told host Rob Schmitt. "We have great generals. When I took out ISIS, they were phenomenal, but you don't see them on television. They're not the television generals."

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/robertelee-statue-cancelculture-history/2021/09/08/id/1035613/

"When he sees what you and I are looking at, the incompetence and the weakness, it could happen."

[Irongrip400]

It should be in a museum. In all honesty, it’s a monument of a general of a defeated nation. I don’t believe it should be shit canned, but it belongs in a museum.

[Dos Equis]

It should be in a museum. In all honesty, it’s a monument of a general of a defeated nation. I don’t believe it should be shit canned, but it belongs in a museum.

He has his own small exhibit near DC.  Unless they shut it down. 

[chaos]

They can hide history but they can't erase it.

[Body-Buildah]

Nothing about the severe vandalism and law-breaking that took place to destroy it??

Thats OK?

[IroNat]

Arlington National Cemetery is located on Robert E. Lee's former plantation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery

"George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington and adopted son of George Washington, acquired the land that now is Arlington National Cemetery in 1802, and began construction of Arlington House, which was ultimately named after the village of Arlington, Gloucestershire, England, where his family was originally from. The estate passed to Custis's daughter, Mary Anna, who had married United States Army officer Robert E. Lee. Custis's will gave a "life inheritance" to Mary Lee, allowing her to live at and run Arlington Estate for the rest of her life but not enabling her to sell any portion of it.[5] Upon her death, the Arlington estate passed to her eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee.[5] The building had previously been known as the Custis-Lee Mansion.[4]

When Virginia seceded from the Union after the start of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter, Robert E. Lee resigned his commission on April 20, 1861, and took command of the armed forces of the Commonwealth of Virginia, later becoming commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.[6] On May 7, troops of the Virginia militia occupied Arlington and Arlington House.[7] With Confederate forces occupying Arlington's high ground, the capital of the Union was left in an untenable military position.[8] On May 3, General Winfield Scott ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to clear Arlington and the city of Alexandria, Virginia, of all troops not loyal to the United States.[9] Despite not wanting to leave Arlington House, Mary Lee believed her estate would soon be recaptured by federal soldiers. On May 14, she buried many of her family treasures on the grounds and left for her sister's estate at Ravensworth in Fairfax County, Virginia.[10][11] McDowell occupied Arlington without opposition on May 24.[12]
Arlington House

At the outbreak of the Civil War, most military personnel who died in battle near Washington, D.C., were buried at the United States Soldiers' Cemetery in Washington, D.C., or Alexandria Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, but by late 1863 both were nearly full.[13] On July 16, 1862, Congress passed legislation authorizing the U.S. federal government to purchase land for national cemeteries for military dead, and put the U.S. Army Quartermaster General in charge of this program.[13] In May 1864, Union forces suffered large numbers of dead in the Battle of the Wilderness. Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs ordered that an examination of eligible sites be made for the establishment for a large new national military cemetery. Within weeks, his staff reported that Arlington Estate was the most suitable property in the area.[13] The property was high and free from floods (which might unearth graves), it had a view of the District of Columbia, and it was aesthetically pleasing. It was also the home of the leader of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America, and denying Robert E. Lee use of his home after the war was a valuable political consideration.[14] The first military burial at Arlington, for William Henry Christman, was made on May 13, 1864,[15] close to what is now the northeast gate in Section 27.[16] However, Meigs did not formally authorize establishment of burials until June 15, 1864.[17] Arlington did not desegregate its burial practices until President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948."

[IRON CROSS]

They can hide history but they can't erase it.

Planet of the Apes 

[Straw Man]

Not surprised that Trump has an issue with this

It's just one TRAITOR to the United States of America supporting another TRAITOR to the United States of America

Do think Trump even knows that LEE was a TRAITOR LIKE HIM ?

[Straw Man]

Somehow I missed this quote from THE TRAITOR

"If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago. What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don't have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!"

It appears that  not only do Trump and Lee both have being A TRAITOR in common but Trump seems unaware that Lee LOST the Civil War.   

So now have two things in common.  They are both TRAITORS and LOSERS

[IRON CROSS]

Somehow I missed this quote from THE TRAITOR

It appears that  not only do Trump and Lee both have being A TRAITOR in common but Trump seems unaware that Lee LOST the Civil War.   

So now have two things in common.  They are both TRAITORS and LOSERS

Not everyone can 'win' a war in Afghanistan like SENILE Joe !.

Senile Joe seems unavware about US $ 90 BILLIONS of military gear that he left in Talibanistan !.

[chaos]

Somehow I missed this quote from THE TRAITOR

Amazing since you hang on his every word.

[Moontrane]

 

https://www.kansascity.com/news/article254097113.html

They also decided to dig into the lid of the cornerstone to insert a new time capsule and state officials ceremonially placed it Thursday.

The new time capsule will contain items reflective of current times, including an expired vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a Black Lives Matter sticker and a photograph of a Black ballerina with her fist raised near the Lee statue after racial justice protests erupted following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year.

[Humble Narcissist]

Not surprised that Trump has an issue with this

It's just one TRAITOR to the United States of America supporting another TRAITOR to the United States of America

Do think Trump even knows that LEE was a TRAITOR LIKE HIM ?

General Grant and Abraham Lincoln didn't consider Lee a traitor.  I think they understood more about the situation than a retard like you.