What Donald Trump says in this story is he will deploy the military, tens of thousands of armed

soldiers in tanks and Humvees all over the country. He will build massive detention in deportation

camps. He will lock up political opponents. Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be monitored

by the state. All of it will be scrutinized by the state by America's first dictator because Time

magazine went to Mara Lago and they asked the most important question that anybody has asked in

2024 and the answer they got is a repudiation of the United States. Donald Trump has laid out a

blueprint. He has told us what is coming. We must stop this. It is April 30th, 2024, and there are 189 days left

until the presidential election of November 2024. April 30th is an important day in American

history. It is the day the Vietnam War ended, April 30th,

1975, 49 years ago today. These scenes of chaos will long linger in the imagination of the

generation of Americans who fought in the war, who protested in the war, whose generation was defined by it. In Washington,

D.C., the names of the 58,000 dead are etched into a black marble wall. In Vietnam, more than a

million were killed. Today, Vietnam is one of the youngest nations on earth. And for young Vietnamese, born in

1980 or after, they are the first generation in a thousand years who is born into peace.

Vietnam is a strategically vital and important American partner in the South China Sea.

This relationship between our countries is important

to understand. This is a tragic history that is important to know. When you look out at American

life today and ponder the collapse of trust in institutions, cynicism. All of it is born from a lie, told to the American people

by the best and the brightest who sent them to war, who are black, poor brown, poor white,

to a war on the other side of the world that they knew

could not be won. It is one of the most shameful chapters in American history. And if you see a

Vietnam veteran, and these guys are increasingly old now, a lot of them in wheelchairs going to Washington, D.C. to look at the

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