Rep. Wesley Hunt defends Trump's move to restore Robert E. Lee's name to military base

Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, defended erstwhile President Donald Trump's determination to reconstruct the sanction of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Fort Gregg-Adams during an quality connected "Real Time," Friday, pursuing the Biden administration's 2023 removal of Lee's sanction from the base.

Hunt argued that keeping Confederate generals' names connected statues and subject bases serves arsenic "a reminder of what was," and if we don't retrieve our nation's history, "we are doomed to repetition it."

When asked by big Bill Maher what helium thought of Trump's decision to rename the base, Hunt told the late-night big helium really lived successful the Robert E. Lee Barracks erstwhile helium attended West Point.

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Hunt argued that Confederate statues are a "reminder of what was," and warned that if we don't retrieve our nation's history, "we are doomed to repetition it."

"I’ll ne'er hide walking nether the threshold of Robert E. Lee Barracks and reasoning to myself: ‘Damn, this is 1 hellhole of a country,’" helium told Maher. "Because lone successful America tin idiosyncratic similar maine locomotion into a gathering named aft a Confederate wide and past beryllium a palmy West Point graduate."

The Texas congressman argued that if the United States were to commencement changing the names of buildings, each azygous gathering would beryllium named Jesus Christ "based connected perfection."

Maher, an outspoken atheist, responded, "Well…" to the laughter of the sheet and audience.

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After a speedy laugh, Hunt got close backmost to making his lawsuit against the removal of humanities statues and buildings that correspond a darker clip successful the nation's history.

Earlier this month, Trump announced that his medication volition reconstruct the archetypal names of respective U.S. Army bases that were renamed during the Biden presidency, calling the erstwhile changes unnecessary and politically driven. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

He noted that helium is joined to a achromatic pistillate and the begetter to 3 biracial children, thing that would not person been imaginable during the clip play these humanities figures were alive.

"I cannot hold to amusement them — and instrumentality them to places that — that wasn't ever the case," helium told the panel. "There was a clip erstwhile your parent and daddy couldn't beryllium married."

Hunt celebrated the information that his children person the accidental to acquisition "second-lining down successful New Orleans," portion besides spending clip connected his wife's household workplace successful Iowa, adding, "That is America."

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"And I bash not privation to instrumentality down these statues and alteration the names of these buildings due to the fact that they’re a reminder of what was. And if we don’t retrieve it, we are doomed to repetition it," helium concluded.

After each of this, Maher responded, "Oh. So there’s a crushed for it. I see."