Mehdi Hassan

I'm here because I love this country.

I love America.

I love the First Amendment.

I love our democracy.

I love our diversity.

Yes, our diversity.

And I am not willing to sit back and watch our glorious American multiracial, multicultural, democratic experiment, our constitutional republic destroyed by the guy from Home Alone 2.

Not going to do it.

He just went to see the Egyptian President Sisi, who is a military dictator, runs one of the most repressive regimes on earth.

And he went there and he said, I want to praise your fantastic leadership and your low crime rates.

This is who he loves.

This is the autocratic leader he aspires to be.

And of course, he was in Egypt hailing his Gaza peace plan, which is a ceasefire, yes, but not a peace plan.

Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan.

for Palestinian freedom, no plan for Palestinian statehood, no plan for justice for the Palestinians who have been massacred and starved and genocided and ethnically cleansed for the past two years, including the past nine months of his presidency.

Meanwhile, Israel for the past week has violated the ceasefire again and again, killing Palestinians with impunity.

Yesterday they killed seven Palestinian children during a ceasefire.

There is no peace in the Middle East because as Dr. King said, peace is not just the absence of violence, it is the presence of justice.

So these are dark times, genocide abroad, fascism at home, which is why it's so crucial that we gather, we organize, we rally like this.

We mobilize, we pluralize, we bring people into the tent, we register voters, we defend voters, we become voters if we're not already.