🚨NEW: Rep. Wesley Hunt DEFENDS Trump restoring Robert E. Lee’s name to military base — gets applause and causes Bill Maher to realize why it matters🚨
HUNT: “So when I was at West Point, I actually lived in Robert E. Lee Barracks when I was there.”
“And I’ll never forget walking under the threshold of Robert E. Lee Barracks and think to myself: ‘D*mn, this is one h*ll of a country.'”
“Because only in America can someone like me walk into a building named after a Confederate general and then be a successful West Point graduate.”
“If we start changing the names on buildings, then every single building would be named Jesus Christ — based on perfection.”
“And I do not want to take down these statues and change the names of these buildings because they’re a reminder of what was. And if we don’t remember it, we are doomed to repeat it.”
MAHER: “Oh. So there’s a reason for it. I see.”