One of my great-great-great uncles fought for the Union cause at the battle of the Angle at Gettysburg, and his name is on the Pennsylvania monument there. It makes me sick to think of the Cheeto making his announcement there:
Gettysburg would be quite the choice, given the president’s recent defense of generals from the side that lost that battle https://t.co/vKbzGaCnrU
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 10, 2020
The most obvious Confederate sympathizer to sit in the White House since John Tyler is proposing to accept his party’s nomination atop the graves of men who fought and died to defeat the treasonous bastards whom his most fervent fans so revere. https://t.co/ZV8NhhzOsC
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 10, 2020
Gettysburg is sacred ground. It’s not Donald Trump’s goddamn playpen. It’s not a prop for a fascist tyrant. 50,000 people suffered or died on that ground, half of whom fought against the traitor flag and generals he’s defending. I bet he doesn’t even know the year of the battle.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 10, 2020
There are about one thousand Confederate soldiers buried at Gettysburg, most of them in unmarked graves.
Maybe Trump should try the Arlington National Cemetery located on the traitor Robert E. Lee’s confiscated plantation?
Only a White Supremacist would look around for an old Confederate burial ground as an appropriate place to accept the presidential nomination.