Trump Claims People Saying America Is Stolen Land Are Communists
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TL Hutton | Obsidian Skull Press
7/5/20263 min read
Trump Claims People Saying America Is Stolen Land Are Communists
“As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors, they’re doing something much worse than slandering our past,” Trump Said. “They are slandering and attacking our future.”
See the full hate-filled speech here:
The Heart of Everything That Is: Why We Refuse to Silence the Truth
At Obsidian Skull Press, we believe in the power of stories. But history isn’t just a story we tell to make ourselves feel comfortable—it is the bedrock upon which our present stands. When that bedrock is built on a foundation of sanitized myths and the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty, we have a duty to speak up.
Not 20 hours ago, we watched with profound disgust as President Trump stood at the base of Mount Rushmore—a site the Great Sioux Nation (which include the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes) call Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Pahá (Six Grandfathers Mountain)—and declared that those who acknowledge this country’s history of stolen land are peddling "Marxist lies."
Let’s be brutally honest: calling someone a "Communist" is the exhausted, empty playbook of those who have no factual defense for their own bigotry. It is a desperate, intellectual cowardice used to label anyone who reminds us of basic, documented reality.
The Reality of the Black Hills: Mount Rushmore sits in the heart of the Black Hills—Paha Sapa, the "Heart of Everything That Is." This was not empty wilderness waiting for discovery; it was, and is, the sacred territory of the Great Sioux Nation. The legal fact of its theft isn’t a "Marxist theory"—it is a matter of U.S. Supreme Court record. In United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980), the highest court in this land admitted the territory was unlawfully seized. The Sioux Nation was offered money for that theft, and they did something profound: they refused the payout. They didn't want the blood money—they wanted their home.
To stand on the carved-out faces of colonizers, in the middle of that stolen sacred space, and smear the very people whose land you are standing on as "enemies of the future" isn't patriotism. It is a grotesque act of historical gaslighting.
The Erasure of Our Identity: At Obsidian Skull Press, we stand in absolute, unwavering solidarity with our Indigenous and Latin brothers, sisters, and kin. We find the rhetoric that equates historical truth-telling with "anti-Americanism" to be not only pathetic but dangerous.
Acknowledging that the USA was built on stolen land is not a rejection of the present—it is a demand for the integrity of our future. We have no interest in tearing down the concept of liberty—we are demanding that it finally be applied to those from whom it was taken.
The mentality that says this nation’s history began a mere 250 years ago, that frames "American culture" as a monolith of white hegemony, is the actual threat to our national soul. It is a thin, brittle worldview that cannot survive the weight of the truth.
We Will Not Be Silent: At Obsidian Skull Press, we don’t write soft, comfortable narratives. We find our stories in the shadows. We dig into the bones of history, and we choose to honor the voices that have been systematically marginalized by those who prefer a fairy tale to the reality of the scalp, the treaty-break, and the displacement.
If acknowledging the sovereignty of the Lakota, the Cherokee, the Diné, the Yaqui, and every Indigenous nation makes us a target for your labels, then we will wear them as a badge of honor. We aren't interested in your name-calling. We are interested in the reclamation of history, the acknowledgment of ancestors, and the radical, unshakeable truth.
This land has a heartbeat that existed long before the flag was raised, and it will continue long after the lies are buried.
Obsidian Skull Press stands with you. The truth is not a political tool—it is a human right.
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