President Donald Trump delivered a patriotic speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday to mark the 250th anniversary of July 4th. During the event, he utilized rhetoric regarding American exceptionalism as he ushered in the milestone.
The president warned of a resurgence of the communist menace in the land, describing it as a sinister threat. He urged Americans to protect the freedoms envisioned by the nation's founders against what he called the communist threat posed by progressive Democrats.
The speech evoked the Red Scare of the 1950s, one of the country's ugliest chapters, during which alleged communists were persecuted and blacklisted from jobs across America.