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Trump wishes a happy Thanksgiving 'to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics'

Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald on

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It wouldn’t be a modern U.S. holiday without social media shared messages and greetings, and it’s fair to say that former President Donald Trump’s unorthodox approach to holiday well-wishing has itself become something of a tradition.

This Thanksgiving Day was no exception, with President Joe Biden and other leading lawmakers offering holiday proclamations and thoughts of thankfulness and family, and Trump making clear once again that he isn’t inclined to stick with a seasonal script.

“Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” the President-elect declared via his Truth Social media platform, capitalization his.

Biden struck a more gracious note, observing that Thanksgiving is meant to be a time for family, when we “celebrate the many blessings of our great nation,” and that it’s a tradition started when the “the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving to honor a successful harvest, made possible by the generosity and kindness of the Wampanoag people.”

“Thanksgiving is at the heart of America’s spirit of gratitude — of finding light in times of both joy and strife,” the President wrote in his proclamation.

Then-General George Washington observed a sort of Thanksgiving on his way to Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War, Biden said, and former-President Abraham Lincoln codified the holiday into law during the height of the U.S. Civil War, “finding gratitude in the courage of the American people who sacrifice so much for our country.”

“This Thanksgiving — the last one I will declare as President — I express my gratitude to the American people. Serving as President has been the honor of a lifetime. America is the greatest country on Earth, and there is so much to be grateful for. May we celebrate all that unites us — because there is nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together,” Biden wrote in his Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, in her proclamation, also made note of the cooperation between colonial Pilgrims living in Plymouth and the Wampanoag people who helped them survive the winter.

She went on to quote Samuel Adams, who in 1777 wrote of the occasion that “for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”

The governor then quoted Lincoln, who in proclaiming the first official Thanksgiving in 1864 wrote “to these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.”

Healey declared that “we have much to be thankful for in Massachusetts,” listing as examples our first responders, our doctors and nurses, our scientific achievements, the state’s veterans, educators, championship sports teams, and natural resources.

 

She called on residents to take part in the holiday by reaching “out to our neighbors in need by providing a helping hand, working in a food pantry or kitchen, donating clothing or volunteering in our communities.”

“Today, as families and friends across Massachusetts and the country gather together, may we be mindful of our gifts and talents, our blessings, relationships and goodwill, the peace we enjoy, the liberty we cherish and the hope we have for a joyful year ahead,” Healey added.

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said via the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that “when Congress asked President Washington to declare America’s first National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving, his proclamation of Nov. 26, 1789, noted ‘it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.'”

“We do well to remember that today. Have a happy, blessed Thanksgiving,” he wrote.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote that “when we remember what we’re thankful for, we know what’s worth fighting for.”

“I’m wishing you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving with the people you love, and I’m grateful to be by your side for all the fights to come,” she said via Twitter.

Trump did close his greeting with a message of hope, though it was one that looked forward to his own incoming administration.

“Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American,” he added.

Happy Thanksgiving, indeed.

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