01/22/2017
President Donald Trump Signs a Proclamation Declaring a National Day of Patriotism and Orders the Interior Department to Cease Social Media Activity
Excerpt:
"In the case of a 2017 National Day of Patriotism, the primary duty of the American people must be a recognition of President Trump as a man who enters office with known Nationalists at his side and with his ear; extremists (who even by right wing standards are considered extreme) serving as official and unofficial advisors; seals of approval from members of the United States N**i Party, and, public exclamations of support from former and current heads of the Ku Klux Klan of the United States of America. Further, he is a President who has demonstrated proclivity toward restrictions to press freedoms and public demonstrations.
While it is perfectly fine for a President of the United States to rally unity, it would be ignorant for anyone to assume President Trump does not recognize the full spectrum of his support among the American people: as aware as he is of David Duke’s approval, President Trump is equally informed that 25,000 New Yorkers protested on the eve of his inauguration; approximately two-hundred protestors were arrested in Washington, D.C. in protest against the validity of his presidency; scores of protests against his anti-immigrant views are occurring throughout the world; and, American women are preparing themselves for a March on Washington, some in shades of pink, but very few (we would assume) styled to mimic the former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."
One of Donald Trump's first official acts as President was to sign a proclamation declaring a National Day of Patriotism. The date of said national patriotism is to be announced by the high office at a later time. News organizations, such as Time, were quick to note other Presidents who had also sig...