Opinion: Trump spoke almost entirely about American military power without reflecting on the power of America’s example
Patrick Granfield, a national security appointee in the Obama Administration, served as a speechwriter for Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. He now works in aerospace and defense.
The event, for all its fanfare, had little of the boisterous joy that you feel on a typical July Fourth on the Mall. The rain didn't help. second of four separate areas reserved for VIPs, a dozen or so rows from the podium but with a view of the president somewhat obscured by a decorative military personnel carrier. Around me were
There was even mention of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in 1963 from the spot that Trump did Thursday evening, but nothing about the racial and economic divides that he worked to repair, or the work yet to be done before America shall overcome. There was mention of a Catholic nun who has long served the needy in Washington, D.C., but none about young migrants, most of them Catholic, and whether their needs were being met.
On the weekend of that celebration, my grandfather, a first-generation American and journeyman mechanic from New England, came to Washington to see my sister receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. I remember nothing about the Mass but can vividly recall riding the D.C. metro to what was dubbed “The National Victory Celebration” with my grandfather.
What Trump could not have imagined when he scheduled the Salute to America is what it ended up emphasizing—not just deflecting focus from the triumph of America’s story of independence, but directing it toward the contradiction and tragedy of Donald Trump. No president in modern history has more often emphasized the virtues of our military's courage, honor and valor, and done less in his political or personal life to exhibit them.
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