Pres. Donald Trump declares U.S. in 'culture war,' calls flying Confederate flag 'freedom of speech.'
In a separate interview Tuesday, the president also declared,"We are in a culture war."The flag has become a flash point in that increasingly bitter debate -- amplified by Trump as he tries to regain lost ground in a reelection campaign dominated by how he's dealt with the pandemic.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020.At that briefing Monday, she also deflected repeated questions about the president's NASCAR tweet and where Trump stood the Confederate flag issue, saying he hadn't taken a position."I spoke to him this morning about this, and he said he was not making a judgment one way or the other," McEnany said, when asked about the president's tweet.
File photo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley arriving for briefing with members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the situation with Iran, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8, 2020 in Washington.Back in February the Marine Corps was the first military service to ban Confederate flags and divisive symbols, a ban that went into effect in June.
The head of U.S. Forces Korea, Army Gen. Robert Abrams, also banned the Confederate flag on all USFK installations last month, saying in a memo,"The Confederate Battle Flag does not represent the values of U.S. Forces assigned to serve in the Republic of Korea."This file photo taken on Dec. 26, 2011, shows the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C.
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a member of the committee which approved the measure, asked directly last month about the president's opposition, said,"Well, we'll work that through, but we're moving in the right direction." Trump has seen resistance from his own party since tweeting Monday that NASCAR's only full-time Black driver should apologize for an investigation he did not call for and"that & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!"
"We're starting to see some cracks within the Republican Party -- and that's one of the things that makes Trump's comments so strange -- because he does really seem to be left behind right now," said Kevin Levin, a historian based in Boston who specializes in Civil War history.
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