Two of the brightest new stars in the world of white supremacy will appear at President Trump’s Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday, adding luster to an event already primed to raise the blood pressure of every red-blooded racist in the country.
Both of the freshly-minted celebrities were featured in videos shared on Twitter by President Trump over the last few days and have become inspirations to white people terrified by the spectacle of black people demonstrating against being murdered by police and other aspects of institutional racism.
The thus far anonymous man in the golf cart, apparently a retired Miami Dade County fireman who chanted “White Power” at demonstrators protesting a June 14th parade celebrating President Trump’s birthday in The Villages, Florida, will appear at the July 3rd Independence Day celebration along with Patricia McCloskey, a wealthy personal injury lawyer. McCloskey, along with her husband, confronted Black Lives Matters protesters passing by their home, pointing their loaded guns at them and apparently soiling themselves in horror at the sight of black people freely moving about on their exclusive, private street.
The July 3rd event was originally supposed to take place at the Stone Mountain monument in Georgia, but the Ku Klux Klan already had it booked so the president’s team settled for Mount Rushmore. In spite of public health officials’ concerns about hosting a celebration which may include as many as 7,500 people during a rampant pandemic in the United States that has infected 2.6 million people and killed 128,000, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem insisted “We won’t be social distancing.”
The ardently pro-Trump governor argued that the “nanny state” has gone too far with Coronavirus restrictions. “After all, we don’t have laws mandating the use of seat belts or prohibiting drunk driving or smoking in public buildings so why should we have rules designed to protect the public from a raging pandemic that is probably a hoax or a Chinese conspiracy?”