President Trump Plans to Make English the Official Language of the United States
The United States has never had an official language in its 249-year history. This is about to change. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to make English the national language.
According to a statement from a White House official on February 28, this upcoming executive order will also rescind an executive order from former President Bill Clinton requiring federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers. The order is designed to foster national unity.
National language: Since America’s first 13 states were British colonies, English has been America’s most common language. Yet between 350 and 430 languages are spoken in the country.
According to the American Translators Association, roughly 25 million Americans cannot speak English proficiently. This is a major problem for national unity as these people are more likely to feel a sense of loyalty to nations where their native language is spoken. Making English the national language would help establish an American identity.
National culture: A few years ago, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was castigated for saying that “America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” Activists, scholars and even other Republicans called her a racist. Yet it is not racist to note that America’s language and political culture originated among the Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Jutes.
Other ethnicities are welcome to immigrate to America and adopt its language and culture. But that does not change the fact that freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of trade, freedom of religion, equality of all men, and limited government are Anglo-Saxon political traditions. Speaking English highlights this fact.
Ancient origins: In his most popular book, The United States and Britain in Prophecy, the late Herbert W. Armstrong proved that the Angles and Saxons descended from the lost Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. This astonishing truth means that many Anglo-Saxon political traditions are not ideas they thought up themselves, but rather ideas directly from the lost 10 tribes of ancient Israel.
Learn more: Read “Are ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Values Really Racist?”
