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Donald Trump has been criticized for failing to actively reject patriotism during his two years as president.
Members of the white group Patriot Front have marched around the United States capital, many covering their faces with white cloth masks and glasses.
On Saturday, videos circulated on social media showing lines of men in khaki pants, khaki baseball caps and dark blue shirts climbing the stairs to the Washington, DC, subway and subway cars.
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They were then photographed marching through places like New Carrollton, Maryland, part of the capital city. Others appeared in front of the US Capitol.
Some of the marchers carried American flags, drums and shields. A few waved Confederate flags, a flag that some associate with Southern identity but which others see as a symbol of racist hatred. The Confederacy tried to secede from the US in 1861 to protect slavery, which led to the American Civil War.
The protests coincided with the Fourth of July, the US Independence Day holiday. This year was a remarkable 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The Telegraph channel of the Patriot Front indicated that the group expects more than 400 whites to participate in Saturday’s events. Throughout the day, it also posted videos of marchers, some of whom chanted “Reclaim America” loudly.
The group’s website called on people “born in this country of our European nation” to express their “right to cultural independence”.
Experts from the University of George Washington’s Program on disinformation have explained that the Patriot Front is a fascist organization committed to “creating a clean culture in the United States”.
Critics have criticized the administration of President Donald Trump for encouraging such groups, including spreading false propaganda such as the main replacement theorya racist belief that affirms that white Christians are being replaced by minorities.
According to experts, the Patriot Front was created in 2017 after the “Unite the Right” conference in August 2017.
The meeting saw whites and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia. Another successful white man, James Alex Fields Jrattacked bystanders by driving his car into a crowd, killing a 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Trump, who was in the middle of his first term as president at the time, responded to the incident by saying, “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had some very good people on both sides.”
Critics have repeatedly criticized Trump for refusing to forcefully reject Western aid.
In 2022, for example, Trump dined at his Mar-a-Lago resort with the singer Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and the white man Nick Fuentes, both of whom were criticized for anti-Semitic comments.
“We had dinner on Tuesday evening with most of the members in attendance on the back patio. The meal was quick and boring,” Trump said. he wrote at that time.
Trump has also faced numerous accusations of racism, including later send a video Earlier this year, it depicted former Democratic President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama as monkeys.
Senator Ed Markey was among those who called for the administration to reprimand on Saturday.
“We cannot remain silent in the face of our patriots marching in our nation’s capital. From Massachusetts to Washington DC hatred and bigotry have no place here,” Markey said. has been sent on social media.
