Trump Tags the Alamo to Strengthen His Own Myth

Of course, he doesn’t know the true story of the Texas battle

Steve Jones
Populiteracy
Published in
2 min readJan 12, 2021

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Trump before going to Texas. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Yahoo News)

Donald Trump went to Alamo, Texas, on January 12. Not the Alamo in San Antonio, but a small town on the Rio Grande named Alamo.

He went there to inspect a little bit of border wall that his administration built. But, as his niece Mary Trump posits, he…

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