Cory Booker Rails Against Trump & “Disneyfication” Of U.S. History As Epic Floor Speech Nears Senate Record
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Elections in Florida and Wisconsin today make shift the political landscape for Donald Trump and Democrats, but it is Cory Booker who has taken centerstage.

“This is a moral moment in America, what are we going to do?” the senior Senator from New Jersey asked his colleagues and the many watching on C-SPAN and other networks

Berating the MAGA administration and its blitzkrieg polices in a Senate floor speech that has lasted more than 23 hours and is still going, Sen. Booker is praising M&Ms (a Garden State invention) and naming names — including his own party, Trump and the House of Mouse.

“We have to redeem the dream,” the two-term Democrat proclaimed of Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, International allies, DEI programs and outreach, the media, the courts, Congress, universities, the civil service immigrants and millions of Americans, especially minorities and those less fortunate. “We have to excite people again. He, in the highest office of our land, wants to divide us against ourselves, wants to make us afraid, wants to make us fear so much that we’re willing to violate people’s fundamental rights.”

Covered live since Monday by C-SPAN, Booker’s increasingly passionate speech has been on CNN and MSNBC sporadically throughout the day — with a clock sometimes on-screen. Unsurprisingly, Fox News did not cut to Booker that often.

With a spotlight on Trump moves to take over the likes of the Smithsonian and literally erase heroes like Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, LGBTQ+ advocates and service members, Iwo Jima flag raiser Ira Hayes and more from government websites and history, Sen. Booker added:

Yes, things are tough right now. They’re hard, they’re scary, they’re hurting, but we can overcome this. Our American history if it’s nothing else, American history, if it’s nothing else, it is a perpetual testimony to the achievement of impossible things against impossible odds. We are a nation that is great, not because the people that are trying to whitewash our history to remove great people, Native Americans, black people and women from our military websites. I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.

Trying to keep their corporate head down in a political fox hole after late last year paying $15 million to Trump to settle the then president-elect’s defamation case against ABC and anchor George Stephanopoulos, the DEI stripping Bob Iger-led Disney did not respond to Deadline’s request for comment on Sen. Booker’s comments.

Calling out Trump’s economic policies and the benefits of proposed new big tax cuts for the highest earners as a “lie,” Sen. Booker came back again and again to the fragility of the rule of law and independent judges under Trump 2.0. Earning praise over the last day from many who have decried the Democrats tepid response to Trump’s flooding of the realpolitik  zone, Booker took a lighter tone at one point this afternoon to laugh at the “WTF?” comment in a question to him from Hawaii’s Sen. Mazie Hirono on Tuesday.

Still, the bulk of Sen. Booker’s hours and hours of remarks, sometimes reading letters from citizens hit by Trump and Elon Musk’s “battle axe” assault on programs and federal employees, were no laughing matter. “This is a president ..isn’t respecting the Constitution …the rights we hold precious,” he said bluntly of the past 72-days of Trump’s return to power.

Already having delivered the second longest solo speech in Senate history, past presidential candidate Booker is going for the all-time record Tuesday No April Fools’ joke, he doesn’t have much further to go. The soon-to-be pulled down record is currently held by the openly racist and former Dixicrat Strom Thurmond. In a protest against the relatively weak 1957 Civil Rights bill, the Republican from South Carolina went on for 24 hours, 18 minutes.

Sen. Booker should beat that in the next hour or so.

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