“ANGLO-SAXON COURAGE”
The US president appeared in a jovial temper, even joking concerning the size of his personal marriage to Melania Trump, a day after calling for the sacking of comic Jimmy Kimmel for likening the First Woman to an “expectant widow.”
Kimmel made the joke days earlier than an alleged try to assassinate the president.
But Trump’s speech additionally struck an sudden observe.
Regardless of American pleasure at ousting the British to create their very own nation 250 years in the past, the Republican chief repeatedly emphasised the widespread heritage between Britain and the US.
He even hailed Britain’s function in colonising North America, a controversial topic given the atrocities in opposition to native individuals, by waves of European conquerors who crossed the Atlantic.
“Right here on a wild and untamed continent, they set free the traditional English love of liberty,” Trump stated.
Trump’s remarks performed into his nationalist administration’s wider rejection of “woke” historical past, in favor of celebrating white, European tradition and downplaying colonial extra and slavery.
And Britain, Trump stated, was part of his model of the American story.
“The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776, had been the heirs to this majestic inheritance,” Trump stated.
“Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon braveness.”
