ARANTXA LOIZAGA: We begin with the campaign rally and 4th of July celebration that President Trump organized during a full-blown pandemic. They issued 7,500 tickets. Those who went to the national park in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota did not maintain their social distance and most did not use face masks. Besides, as Pablo Gato tells us from Washington, the president gave a controversial speech that, rather than bringing people together during times of social, economic and health crises, further divided the nation.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: This monument will never be desecrated.
PABLO GATO: This monument will not be desecrated, Trump said. He says this in the midst of a controversy over whether or not Confederate monuments should be removed, and whether or not to change the names of military bases that bear the names of Confederate generals. The faces of four former presidents are carved on Mount Rushmore. Several were slave owners. And the artist that sculpted them was a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.