It is Monday, June the 16th. This is the warning.

What a weekend across the United States. The protests that took place across all 50 states,

in fact, in capitals all over the world, that included thousands of American cities, villages and towns,

were the largest in the history of the United States.

Millions of people turned out. They raised the American flag. They printed signs. And they marched.

And they cheered. And they stood up for something that's bigger than all of us.

And that's the United States.

America.

There is a startling reality.

And it's this.

Though the country is 250 years old,

half of all Americans that have ever lived are alive right now.

There have only ever been 700 million of us from the beginning.

And so that half of all Americans that have ever been will decide the future for every American

not yet born. And this is fundamental to grasp because it is elemental to the concept of American

patriotism. We Americans leave it a little bit better than we got it. We hand off to the next

generation a country that's freer, more prosperous.

We make it an inch closer at least to the summit of that city upon a hill that John Winthrop

talked about, that John Kennedy talked about, that Ronald Reagan talked about, that we share as Americans. Abraham Lincoln

talked about all of this at a moment of violence and chaos and disunion at the beginning

of the Civil War. He said, we must remember that we are friends. He mentioned that if it is our lot as a nation to die,

it will be by suicide, not foreign invasion. And so when you look at Donald Trump's truth social posts,

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