“For all intents and purposes, Donald Trump today became the Confederacy’s second president,” the Lincoln Project said in a statement:A group of President Donald Trump ’s conservative critics says he’s just earned a terrible new title after he again defended the Confederacy and vowed to continue to honor its leaders and generals. Today @realDonaldTrump became the Confederacy’s second president. The Pentagon also said it was open to a bipartisan discussion on renaming the numerous U.S. Army bases that honor Confederate figures. That’s when the Lincoln Project called him out. “No American should celebrate traitorous Generals whose actions resulted in the deaths of 620,000+ Americans,” the Lincoln Project wrote on Facebook.

Source: Huffington Post June 11, 2020 09:22 UTC