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 Getty President Obama names new monuments with cheeky hashtag 
 
 President Barack Obama stopped over in his adopted hometown of Chicago on Thursday afternoon to designate three new national monuments for protection, including the city’s Pullman Park District. 
 
 “It’s always been a dream of mine to be the first president to designate a national monument in subzero conditions,” he joked after being introduced by his former chief of staff and Mayor Rahm Emanuel at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy. 
 
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 A White House tweet about the event included the hashtag #ObamaLovesAmerica, a sly reference to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s remark last night, first reported by POLITICO, that he does not “believe that the president loves America.” 
 
 Obama: “I’m using my powers as President to announce America’s 3 newest National Monuments." #ObamaLovesAmerica pic.twitter.com/ckIlTQgVdP — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 19, 2015 
 
 In addition to the Pullman National Monument, the president also announced the Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado and the Honouliuli National Monument in Hawaii, which preserves the site of a World War II internment camp. 
 
 “Going forward, it’s going to be a monument to a painful part of our history so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past,” Obama said. 
 
 With Thursday’s announcement, the president has now declared 15 national monuments since taking office in 2009. 
 
 Also in attendance were Illinois’ Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), and Chicago-area Reps. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Bob Dold (R-Ill.). 

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 Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York on Thursday defended his assertion that President Obama did not love America, and said that his criticism of Mr. Obama’s upbringing should not be considered racist because the president was raised by “a white mother.” 
 
 Mr. Giuliani’s remarks — made at a New York fund-raising event for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin on Wednesday night and first reported by Politico — set off an uproar. 
 
 “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Mr. Giuliani said at the event. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.” 
 
 Critics suggested that Mr. Giuliani’s description of Mr. Obama’s upbringing reflected a prejudiced view that Mr. Obama was different from other Americans. 
 
 In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Giuliani dismissed the criticism and said he was describing the worldview that had shaped Mr. Obama’s upbringing. 
 
 “Some people thought it was racist — I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people,” Mr. Giuliani said in the interview. “This isn’t racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.” 
 
 He also challenged a reporter to find examples of Mr. Obama expressing love for his country. 
 
 “I’m happy for him to give a speech where he talks about what’s good about America and doesn’t include all the criticism,” Mr. Giuliani said. 
 
 Mr. Giuliani said his remarks on Wednesday night were in response to a question about what kind of president he would like to see elected in 2016. He responded, he said, by telling the audience that he wanted a leader who was Mr. Obama’s opposite. 
 
 “I want an American president to raise our spirits again, like a Ronald Reagan,” he said. 
 
 Mr. Giuliani said he also objected to the president’s comments about the Crusades at the National Prayer Breakfast this month, in which Mr. Obama said that during the Inquisition, people had “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” 
 
 “Now we know there’s something wrong with the guy,” Mr. Giuliani said of the president. “I thought that one sort of went off the cliff.’’ 
 
 He added: “What I don’t find with Obama — this will get me in more trouble again — is a really deep knowledge of history. I think it’s a dilettante’s knowledge of history.” 
 
 The White House declined to comment. 
 
 But earlier on Thursday, the deputy press secretary, Eric Schultz, said, “Mr. Giuliani test-drove this line of attack during his fleeting 2007 run for the presidency.” 
 
 “I was obviously not at the dinner last night, nor did I watch the remarks, so I’m going to leave it to those at the dinner to assess whether or not they were appropriate,’’ Mr. Schultz said. 
 
 “But I will say I agree with him on one thing he said today, which is that it was a horrible thing to say.”
– Rudy Giuliani, under fire for private-dinner comments that President Obama doesn't love America and wasn't "brought up the way you were brought up," has explained that he wasn't attacking Obama's race, just his upbringing. "Some people thought it was racist—I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people," Giuliani tells the New York Times. "This isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism," he says, challenging the Times to find examples of Obama saying he loves his country "without all the criticism." Obama was "brought up in an atmosphere in which he was taught to be a critic of America," Giuliani tells CNN. "That is a distinction with prior American presidents" like Ronald Reagan, he says, though he admits there have been an "awful lot of patriots who were critics." White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz told reporters yesterday that he wasn't going to "pile on" with criticism of Giuliani, though he said he agreed with the former New York City mayor's own description of his remarks as "horrible," the Hill reports. But Politico, which first reported Giuliani's comments, notes that after Obama designated three new national monuments yesterday, a White House tweet had the hashtag #ObamaLovesAmerica.