Critics say: spare us another campaign rally
June 29, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT
By Hallie Jackson
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the country will celebrate 243 years of independence — but this year's festivities are already setting off a different kind of fireworks.
That's because of President Donald Trump's plan to add more bells and whistles to Washington's usual celebration: music, military demonstrations and — notably — a speech he'll make, likely from the Lincoln Memorial, according to a White House official. The Washington Post reports there may even be an Air Force One flyover ...
... House leaders, including Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, worry that the events will give an "appearance of a televised, partisan campaign rally on the Mall at public expense," as they put it in a letter to the administration.
"Frankly, that's not what July 4th is about,” Hoyer said in an interview with NBC News ...
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will be airing "A Capital Fourth". The major networks as well as cable CNN, MSNBC, and Faux have re-runs and fill-in programming for the evening.
The less coverage, the better. 
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