Mr Trump’s campaign insisted the location and timing of the event had nothing to do with the Waco siege or anniversary.Ī spokesperson said the site, 17 miles from the Branch Davidian compound, was chosen because it was conveniently situated near four of the state’s biggest metropolitan areas - Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio - and has the infrastructure to handle a sizable crowd. His eyebrow-raising choice of venue in Waco comes amid the 30th anniversary of a 51-day stand-off and deadly siege between US law enforcement and the Branch Davidians that resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of the religious cult and four federal agents and has become a touchstone for far-right extremists and militia groups. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”įormer president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally (Nathan Howard/AP) And 2024 is the final battle, it’s going to be the big one. Mr Trump declared his “enemies are desperate to stop us”, and “our opponents have done everything they can to crush our spirit and to break our will”. Some of his recent rhetoric, including at the rally, has echoed language he used before the Capitol insurrection by a mob of his supporters seeking to stop the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden, who won the presidential election. Send us feedback about these examples.Mr Trump’s rally at the airport grounds in Waco comes as he has berated prosecutors, encouraged protests and raised the prospect of possible violence should he become the first former president in US history to face criminal charges. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'incendiary.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Leonid Bershidsky, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017 But incendiaries, barrel bombs and missiles can do just as much damage to civilians as gas - which Assad didn’t necessarily use or intend to use in the future, anyway. Anne Barnard, New York Times, 10 June 2017 The bombardier dropped four incendiaries, setting the factory ablaze. 2018 White phosphorus, along with other incendiaries, has been used by Syrian government forces battling insurgents in Aleppo and elsewhere. 2018 Among the authors were right-wing incendiaries like Michael Savage, Mark Levin and Ann Coulter. 2019 Hamas, in turn, has staged weekly riots at the Gaza barrier and unleashed flying incendiaries that have wreaked massive ecological damage. Matthew Sturgis, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. John Freeman Gill, New York Times, After two nights of intensive bombing with high explosives and incendiaries, several square miles burn for hours at hundreds of degrees Centigrade, an inferno consuming every living creature. 2022 The handful of structures that survived the inferno, including the doctors’ wood-frame residences, were torched the next night, after the incendiaries came back and took a battering ram to the Women’s Hospital. Noun His many enemies defined him as a reckless and deceitful incendiary. 2023 The methodologies of tactics (Michael’s bomb construction, eventual difficulties in placing the incendiary and keeping authorities at a safe distance) are credibly worked out, and credibly fallible - after all, these people aren’t criminal masterminds. 2023 Won’t set the world on fire with an incendiary quote. 2023 Brimming with equal parts danger and seduction, the Argentine femme fatal teams with Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko, and the incendiary pair presume to unleash their inner beast. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023 Investigators allegedly found an unregistered AR-15 assault rifle and incendiary ammunition in a closet. 2022 Despite that concession, many Franklin residents are still furious - and some of the more incendiary comments at the city board meeting vividly illustrate that the furor is not just about drag but more broadly about LGBTQ acceptance. Christina Jewett, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022 As European countries continue to examine and tailor their treatment, in the United States the public discourse about transgender care is growing more incendiary. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 Dec. 2023 Iran is the very definition of a rogue state: reckless, violent, incendiary, and cruising for a bruising. William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. Adjective Abu Jamal said the atmosphere in Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem was incendiary.
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