America celebrates its 250th birthday
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Trump claims that 375,000 people were at the National Mall before evacuations. If he’s right, it’d still be fewer than in 1976.
President Donald Trump will deliver remarks ahead of a historic fireworks celebration in Washington, DC, to mark America's 250th anniversary.
UPDATE: After the delayed start, Donald Trump spoke for about 40 minutes, presenting a bit of history, like the one of the earliest American flags, and introducing World War II and Vietnam veterans, a veteran Apollo astronaut and the Artemis crew.
Trump marked America’s 250th birthday with a patriotic but political speech, honoring veterans while promoting campaign themes.
The president’s speech was delayed by severe thunderstorms after attendees grappled with extreme heat.
Donald Trump may “like Bill Clinton a lot,” but the 42nd President of the United States showed his deep dislike this Independence Day of where the 45th/47th POTUS is taking the world and the nation on America’s 250 birthday.
At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it has faced since the Civil War.
President Donald Trump used a moment 250 years in the making to give a history lesson tinged with brags about his achievements and pushes for his personal agenda. While celebrating America’s anniversary in a grand July 4th celebration on the National Mall that was delayed due to inclement weather,
Organizers for the America 250 celebration touted a slew of plans to commemorate the country’s historic anniversary on July 4, detailing the programs in the works and hinting that more information would become publicly available in the coming weeks.
U.S. President Donald Trump marks the country's 250th anniversary on Saturday with a political rally on a fenced-off National Mall in Washington, capping a weeks-long celebration that has been widely criticized as divisive.
