President Donald Trump is under fire from some for giving a political speech at the 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree. You can watch the speech at the Boy Scout rally below in full.
Trump was speaking to a Boy Scout jamboree of thousands of Scouts in West Virginia. It’s upsetting some parents and others that the president turned the speech into a political vent about his victory over Hillary Clinton, “fake news,” crowd sizes, and other such topics. He also criticized former President Barack Obama for not attending a similar Boy Scout Jamboree in person, even though Obama is a former Boy Scout, and he spoke about loyalty.
You can read a full transcript of the Trump speech here. Others are criticizing some Trump critics online for comparing the speech and rally to a 1930s era Nazi Hitler Youth rally. Newsweek reported that children’s cheers at the event drew “comparisons between his rousing rhetoric and Nazi youth rallies from some liberal activists and journalists.” It was easy to find such comparisons on Twitter. A sample of some of the Trump Boy Scouts criticism:
Why did the Boy Scouts invite trump to speak? He is the antithesis of everything they say they strive for.
