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“They want to delete our legends. We’re not letting them delete our legends. We’re not letting them delete General Pickens, either, that I can tell you. There will be no deletion of General Pickens! He’s become very famous today, I have to be honest.
“This thing is all over the world. They have it broadcast, look at all the fake news back there. It’s all over the world. I hope they don’t go back to their spreads, where they’re all losing lots of money because they don’t have credibility anymore, and start to say, ‘Let’s look at Andrew Pickens. Let me see. What did he do wrong? Let’s change the name.’
“Don’t let them change anything! Don’t let them change.” – Donald Trump, at his Pickens, South Carolina rally, where he imagined a nonexistent campaign to “delete” Revolutionary War general and slaveholder Andrew Pickens.
After the war, Pickens was a delegate to 1787’s Constitution Convention and later served in the US House. His son and grandson both served as governors of South Carolina. His former plantation is now owned by Clemson University.
Pickens, South Carolina is the seat of Pickens County. You’ll also find a Pickens County in Georgia and Alabama.
Florida’s Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, remained in Union hands throughout the Civil War and is now of the National Seashore.
‘There Will Be No Deletion Of General Pickens!’ Trump Invents And Then Defies Imaginary Media Effort to Change Rally Town’s Name https://t.co/gIDzhdLdM7
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) July 1, 2023