'No gratitude': JD Vance asks who Zohran Mamdani thinks he is for his July 4 post 'America is...'
Vice President JD Vance recently tore into New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and asked who he thinks he is, having no shred of gratitude to the country. The case in point was Mamdani's July 4 social media post in which he wrote: "America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished.
I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America."
JD Vance said Mamdani, according to many reports, never publicly mentioned America's Independence Day but when he did this year, there was no gratitude. "Now, the person who wishes to lead our largest city had, according to multiple media reports, never once publicly mentioned America's Independence Day in earnest.
But when he did so this year, this is what he said, and this is an actual quote."
"There was no sense of owing something to this land and the people who turned its wilderness into the most powerful nation on earth," JD Vance said as he addressed Conservative think tank Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award Dinner in San Diego.
"I wonder, has he ever read the letters from boy soldiers in the Union Army to parents and sweethearts that they'd never see again?" Vance continued. "Has he ever visited the grave site of a loved one who gave their life to build the kind of society where his family could escape racial theft and racial violence? Has he ever looked in the mirror and recognized that he might not be alive were it not for the generosity of a country he dares to insult on its most sacred day?"
"Who the hell does he think that he is?" Vance said.
"Zohran Mamdani's father fled Uganda when the tyrant Idi Amin decided to ethnically cleanse his nation's Indian population," Vance said. "Mamdani's family fled violent racial hatred, only for him to come to this country – a country built by people he never knew, overflowing with generosity to his family, offering a haven from the kind of violent ethnic conflict that is commonplace in world history, but it is not commonplace here – and he dares on our 249th anniversary to congratulate it by paying homage to its 'incompleteness,' and to its, as he calls it, 'contradiction.
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