UN DISCURSO
INDECENTE
Decir que no
debemos criticar al presidente, que siempre debemos apoyar al presidente, en lo
correcto o en lo equivocado, no solo es poco patriótico y servil, sino una traición
moral al país
Teodoro Roosevelt, 1918
https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/2073836939757703579
En discurso para
“conmemorar” los 250 años de la independencia estadounidense, Donald Trump, el
alumno de Roy Cohn, aquel quien fuera el asistente de Joseph McCarthy, revive la
indecencia que fue el “macartismo”. *
Ver
discurso completo aquí: https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-mount-rushmore-250th-birthday-semiquincentennial-july-3-2026/
Anoche Donald Trump dio un discurso lleno de
demagogia política como los que pronunciaba Hugo Chavez, dirigido a evitar la
debacle electoral que amenaza su presidencia en las elecciones de medio termino,
ciertamente no el discurso que cuadraba en fecha tan importante para la
historia del país. Fue un discurso destructor, pomposo, lleno de arrogancia,
que choca de frente contra la sencillez republicana que ha sido la tónica de
los grandes presidentes que ha tenido los Estados Unidos. Comentamos algunos
extractos de este vergonzoso discurso:
Comienza con una inexactitud y una pretenciosa y
ruda aseveración.
“In all the Chronicles of the ages, never has any
nation celebrated so magnificent a triumph as this one, the one that we are
participating in right now. At 250 years, America is the oldest republic on
earth. We are the freest people on earth”
En
un momento en el cual Trump ha firmado un convenio con Irán que casi equivale a
una rendición, habla de un triunfo magnifico. Dice que USA es la república más
antigua del mundo, lo cual sería cierto si elimina del mapa a San Marino,
republica desde 1600. Proclama al país como el más libre del planeta, lo cual
es cuestionable, al compararnos con Suiza, Dinamarca, Nueva Zelandia,
Luxemburgo, países clasificados como más libres que los Estados Unidos en los
rankings reconocidos. Ver https://www.cato.org/search/category/human-freedom-index?gad_campaignid=85808169&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADusmuet49K9pI8L8H31c4Z882UiN
, en el cual se enumeran catorce países más libres que los Estados Unidos.
Dice:
The birth
and survival of the American nation under God is quite simply the best and most
incredible thing ever to happen on this planet by human hands ever. That is
ever, ever, ever. No other country has done more good for this world than the
United States of America.
Hablar de un
renacimiento del país bajo Dios, a la luz de lo que vemos en el plano religioso
actual, es un intento excluyente de promover un nacionalismo evangélico,
asesorado por charlatanes y oportunistas que le ponen las manos y le construyen
estatuas como el becerro de oro de Florida. Y esto, dice, ¡es lo mejor que ha
sucedido en la historia de la humanidad! Agrega que ningún país ha hecho tanto
bien como los Estados Unidos. Aun si esto fuese verdad, la misma naturaleza que
lleva al país a serlo debería inducirlo a la modestia, la sencillez y la consideración
hacia otros países que también hacen el bien. Trump se muestra aquí como un patán.
Y agrega:
There has never been anything like this. The triumph of
American independence was the result of the most extraordinary people in
history, the most extraordinary culture in history, and the most extraordinary
ideas in history, all creating the most extraordinary republic ever, ever, ever
in history.
La verdadera grandeza
no utiliza la hipérbole, la jactancia ofensiva, sino la modestia, la sencillez.
Este pobre hombre es la antítesis del verdadero líder. Sus expresiones son ridículas
y dan pena ajena.
Continua:
Americans
did not bow before a king or a government but kneeled only before Almighty God.
That's right. These were the people who founded our republic. These were the
patriots who fought for independence.
Trump dice que los americanos nunca se sometieron a un gobierno o un
rey pero olvida que el territorio de los Estados Unidos fue una colonia inglesa
por 169 años.
Dice:
No one has
ever given more to charity, ended more hunger, cured more disease or done more
to uplift humanity than Americans and no country ever will be able to match it.
Falso. La gente de los Estados Unidos siempre ha sido muy generosa
pero el gobierno de Trump ha cancelado miles de millones de dólares en ayuda a
los países pobres. Los países más generosos del planeta ,ver: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-charitable-countries , han sido durante
los últimos años: Indonesia, Kenia, Singapur, Gambia y Nigeria. Ver también: https://www.cafonline.org/insights/research/world-giving-index
En términos de porcentajes de PIB dados en ayuda Alemania. Japón,
Francia, Canadá, Holanda y otros países dan más ayuda a otros países que USA.
Trump comienza a sembrar abiertamente la discordia, al decir:
There is
now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers
to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our
great success. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over
taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty.
Resulta paradójico
que quien está promoviendo la supremacía racial blanca, la alianza con la oligarquía
en imitación de Putin, la adquisición por el estado de acciones en la industria
privada, la expulsión de seres “inferiores” del país, todo ello característico de
las naciones comunistas y fascistas, denuncie la llegada del “comunismo” al país.
Trump define a esos
comunistas así:
They don't want good. They don't love God and they don't want
God. They don't love religion and they don't want religion, and they won't have
it, but we will not let them win. They have no chance against us. They have no
respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights. It's
an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder.
Y, quitándose la careta y mostrando su alma mezquina y destructora de
los principios en los cuales esta nación está basada, continúa diciendo:
America
will never be a communist country. We can only lose the midterms if we allow
ourselves to lose the midterms if we are foolish, stupid and unwise. But if we
terminate the filibuster as we should do and immediately vote for the Save
America Act then we will not lose an election for a hundred years. We do that,
we're not going to lose an election for 100 years. [Audience members call out
"100 years"] The Communist Party is made up of illegal immigrants,
criminals and everybody that doesn't want to work.
But
we're not going to let them take too long or too much of our time as they play
their games and send them into exile. We will send them quickly away and we
will continue to build our country bigger and better and stronger than ever
before.
¡Los comunistas son los demócratas! De eso es que se
trata este discurso macabro, de las elecciones de medio termino. Este vulgar vendedor
de aceite de culebras pretende estigmatizar a más de la mitad de la nación que
lo rechaza, demócratas, independientes y hasta republicanos, promoviendo la escisión
sobre la cual Lincoln advertía: “Una casa dividida no puede mantenerse en pies”.
Para el charlatán hay que evitar que quienes no pertenecen a su MAGA, ganen más
elecciones, ni siquiera en cien años.
Lo que parece decirnos Trump en su prosa pomposa y cursi es: Aqui se acabó la
diversidad, la alternancia en el poder, la libertad de opinión, aquí solo mandaremos
los racistas, los oligarcas, los blancos. A los otros los sacaremos del país y continuaremos
edificando nuestro estado totalitario de acuerdo con mis designios, pues soy el
mejor, el más inteligente, cuya efigie estará pronto en esta montaña, aun en vida,
junto con los otros cuatro grandes presidentes que me han precedido.
*
MACARTISMO
AI Overview
McCarthyism
was a period of intense political repression and anti-communist paranoia in the
U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s. Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, it
involved baseless accusations and aggressive investigations of suspected
communists, resulting in ruined careers, blacklisting, and restricted civil
liberties for thousands of Americans.
The
phenomenon permanently reshaped American society, politics, and culture in
several major ways:
- Erosion of
Civil Liberties: In the name of national security, the government and
FBI subjected Americans to invasive employee loyalty programs. Basic First
Amendment rights were compromised, and individuals faced intense scrutiny
simply for their political beliefs, associations, or labor
affiliations.
- Culture of Fear and
Conformity: A widespread chilling effect took hold of the country.
People became hesitant to join voluntary organizations, sign petitions, or
express dissenting political and social views out of fear of being labeled
disloyal.
- Blacklisting in
Entertainment and Media: The Hollywood film industry, alongside
broadcasting and journalism, suffered immensely. Many writers, actors, and
directors were blacklisted—prohibited from working—based on perceived
left-wing sympathies.
- Targeting of
Academic Freedom: Universities face severe pressure to fire
professors who refused to sign loyalty oaths or who held controversial,
left-of-center ideologies, severely limiting academic freedom.
Politicians
across the board scrambled to prove their anti-communist credentials to avoid
becoming targets themselves. This pushed national political discourse further
to the right and stymied progressive policies like universal healthcare
English version
AN
INDECENT SPEECH
The
speech given by Donald Trump in Mount Rushmore to "commemorate" the
250th anniversary of American independence, followed on the tracks of Joseph
McCarthy and his assistant Roy Cohn, who was Trump’s mentor.
See
full speech here: https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-mount-rushmore-250th-birthday-semiquincentennial-july-3-2026/
It
was a speech full of political demagoguery like those given by Hugo Chávez,
aimed at avoiding the electoral debacle that threatens his presidency in the
midterm elections. It was not a speech to fit such an important date in the
history of the country. It was destructive, full of arrogance, the opposite of
the republican simplicity and dignified tone of past great presidents. Here I comment some excerpts.
It
begins with an inaccurate and rude assertion.
"In all the
Chronicles of the ages, never has any nation celebrated so magnificent a
triumph as this one, the one that we are participating in right now. At 250
years, America is the oldest republic on earth. We are the freest people on
earth"
This claim of a
magnificent triumph comes at a time in which he has signed a deal with Iran
that almost amounts to a surrender. He says that the USA is the oldest republic
in the world, which would be true if he erases San Marino from the map, a
republic since 1600. It proclaims the country as the freest on the planet,
which is a lie, since when about 15 countries such as Switzerland, Denmark, New
Zealand, and Luxembourg, are classified as freer, in recognized rankings. See https://www.cato.org/search/category/human-freedom-index?gad_campaignid=85808169&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADusmuet49K9pI8L8H31c4Z882UiN , which lists
fourteen countries freer than the United States.
He says:
The birth and survival of the American nation
under God is quite simply the best and most incredible thing ever to happen on
this planet by human hands ever. That is ever, ever, ever. No other country has
done more good for this world than the United States of America.
To speak of a rebirth of the country under God
sounds like an attempt to promote Christian, evangelical, nationalism as part
of an “official religion”, under the guidance of charlatans and opportunists
who put their hands on Trump and build golden statues for him, such as the Florida
golden calf. And this, he claims, is the best thing that has happened in the
history of humanity! He adds that no country has done as much good as the
United States. Even if this were true (which is difficult to prove) such an assertion shows a lack of
consideration for other countries and shows him to be a jerk.
He says:
There has never been anything like this. The
triumph of American independence was the result of the most extraordinary
people in history, the most extraordinary culture in history, and the most
extraordinary ideas in history, all creating the most extraordinary republic
ever, ever, ever in history.
True greatness refrains from hyperbole, does
not use offensive boasting, uses a modest and unconvoluted language. This poor
man is the antithesis of the true leader. We feel ashamed of him (sentimos pena
ajena).
He continues:
Americans did not bow before a king or a
government but kneeled only before Almighty God. That's right. These were the
people who founded our republic. These were the patriots who fought for
independence.
Trump says that Americans never submitted to a
government or a king but forgets that the territory of the United States was an
English colony for 169 years.
He says:
No one has ever given more to charity, ended
more hunger, cured more disease or done more to uplift humanity than Americans
and no country ever will be able to match it.
False. The people of the United States have
always been very generous, but the Trump administration has canceled billions
of dollars in aid to poor countries. The most generous countries on the planet,
see: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-charitable-countries,
are at this time Indonesia, Kenya, Singapore, Gambia and Nigeria. See
also: https://www.cafonline.org/insights/research/world-giving-index
In terms of percentages of GDP given in aid,
the U.S. runs behind many countries, such as Germany. Japan, France, Canada and
Holland.
Trump shows his true hand when he says:
There is now a resurgence of the communist
menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas
totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. These are not mere
political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism
is a mortal threat to American liberty
It is paradoxical that Trump, who is promoting white racial supremacy, an
alliance with money oligarchy in imitation of Putin, the acquisition by the
state of shares in private companies, the expulsion of "inferior"
beings from the country, moves which are typical of communist and fascist
nations, is denouncing the arrival of "communism" in the country.
He defines these communists as follows:
They don't want good. They don't love God and
they don't want God. They don't love religion and they don't want religion, and
they won't have it, but we will not let them win. They have no chance against
us. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your
God-given rights. It's an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and
mass murder.
Taking off his mask he goes on to say:
America will never be a communist country. We
can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms if we are
foolish, stupid and unwise. But if we terminate the filibuster as we should do
and immediately vote for the Save America Act, then we will not lose an
election for a hundred years. We do that, we're not going to lose an election
for 100 years. [Audience members call out "100 years"] The Communist
Party is made up of illegal immigrants, criminals and everybody that doesn't
want to work.
But we're not going to let them take
too long or too much of our time as they play their games and send them into
exile. We will send them quickly away and we will continue to build our country
bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
To him the communists are the democrats! That is what this macabre discourse is about,
the mid-term elections. This salesman of snake oil intends to
stigmatize the democrats, independents and even republicans who oppose him,
promoting a split about which Lincoln wrote: "A divided house cannot stand".
This charlatan
says that he will prevent non-MAGAs from winning elections for the next one
hundred years. This is what Hugo Chavez used to say.
What Trump seems to be telling us in his
pompous and cheesy prose is: This is the end of diversity, of the alternation of power, of freedom of
opinion. From now on only the racists, the oligarchs, the whites will rule. Others
will be expelled from the country. A totalitarian state will be built according
to my design. I am the best, the most
intelligent, whose effigy will soon be on this mountain, even in life, together
with the other four great presidents who have preceded me.
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