Actor and director Rob Reiner claimed President Trump potentially delivering his Republican presidential nomination acceptance speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a nod to his “devotion to White Supremacy.”
“Trump brilliantly narrows down the location of his acceptance speech. Either break yet another law and do it at the WH, or do it at Gettysburg and celebrate your devotion to White Supremacy,” Reiner tweeted Monday.
Trump brilliantly narrows down the location of his acceptance speech. Either break yet another law and do it at the WH, or do it at Gettysburg and celebrate your devotion to White Supremacy.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) August 10, 2020
Trump said earlier that his acceptance speech would take place at Gettysburg or the White House.
“We have narrowed the Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, to be delivered on the final night of the Convention (Thursday), to two locations — The Great Battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the White House, Washington, D.C. We will announce the decision soon!” he tweeted.
Gettysburg was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War and where President Abraham Lincoln delivered the historic Gettysburg Address.
The president shrugged off pushback that delivering the speech at the White House would violate of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from using federal property for political purposes.
“It is legal. There is no Hatch Act because it doesn’t pertain to the president,” Trump said last week.
Reiner has long been a critic of the president, including calling Trump a “sociopath” and saying he has “no feeling” about people suffering from the coronavirus.
“The President is a sociopath. He has no feeling about people suffering or dying. He uses these ridiculous press briefings as a campaign tool, managing the death toll like poll numbers. Trying to convince US that 200,000 deaths is a victory. Monstrous,” Reiner tweeted in April.
