Trump teases 'Salute to America' on July 4
Source: The Hill
BY JUSTIN WISE - 02/24/19 07:55 AM EST
President Trump on Sunday said his administration would hold one of the "biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C." on July 4.
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Trump said earlier this month that he was thinking about putting on a Fourth of July gathering in Washington, D.C., and he suggested that the event could become a "tradition."
It could be a very exciting day, Trump said. "It'll be a, really a gathering, as opposed to a parade I guess you'd have to say. Perhaps at the Lincoln Memorial. We're looking at sites. But we're thinking about doing something which would become perhaps, become a tradition, Salute to America, on July 4th or July 4th weekend, somewhere around that area."
The mayor's office said it has not received any information from the White House about the event earlier this month.
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riversedge
(70,338 posts)lamp_shade
(14,846 posts)of thousands of people. WTF is he talking about?
Plus the concert and fireworks are televised NATIONALLY, every single year. (PBS: "A Capitol 4th" ).
Plus there's an annual public dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence.
Is he really this ignorant and oblivious about these annual traditions, held in DC but broadcast nationally, even after more than 2 years supposedly on the "job"?
He knows NOTHING about this country, and cares nothing about what really has made this country great. As always, it's only about him.
Harker
(14,049 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 24, 2019, 02:10 PM - Edit history (1)
and that a gigantic Trumpsky is going to be sitting in the chair from now on.
The Great Emancipator meets the Great Appropriator.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)Next he'll call a fake national emergency to get funds to build a monument in DC that is the biggest ever...huge! It will cast a shadow over all the other monuments to lesser presidents like Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington.
Harker
(14,049 posts)but he's really a cry.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,659 posts)He's playing four-dimensional chess, I tell you.
forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)McDonald is the guy who stumbles into any party and assumes its in honor of him.
"Save the date - July 4th!" indeed.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Probably even beyond that too.
The United States who declared independence on July 4, 1776 is dead and gone. All that's left is a hollow shell.
I wish he would stop referring to himself as your favorite president is he that stupid that he thinks if he keeps repeating it it will somehow come true? Or is he really that arrogant. I guess I just answered my own question. July in DC? No thanks.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)He is mentally ill...sociopath, narcissist and sadist to the Nth degree.
SallyHemmings
(1,823 posts)MissMillie
(38,587 posts)oh, and televise it!
FakeNoose
(32,796 posts)Right, and Washington is about 98 degrees with 98% humidity in July.
padah513
(2,509 posts)Why is he tweeting about the Fourth of July?
Harker
(14,049 posts)is that thinking that far ahead prevents him from becoming morbidly depressed regarding the likelihood of his being ousted beforehand.
procon
(15,805 posts)for this little extravaganza? Can Trump call a fireworks show a new national emergency so he can raid the preschoolers milk money program?
dameatball
(7,400 posts)Another chance to promote himself on someone else's dime.
George II
(67,782 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)My previous satirical comment on the subject earlier this month. Almost verbatim.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11813150
I'd be shocked if he doesn't even fuck up my favorite holiday.
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)KPN
(15,665 posts)July 4th is? Frigging mind numbing.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)How about say....September 2nd??
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Vinca
(50,318 posts)Why hasn't anyone else come up with the idea of celebrating the 4th of July????
keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)Is that sarcasm? It's so subtle that I cannot tell.
(sarcasm thingie goes here)
EarthFirst
(2,905 posts)Faux pas
(14,695 posts)never celebrated the 4th before he came along, don't ya know?????
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,659 posts)As I noted in my book One Nation Under God, when Nixon was under fire in early 1970, he and his supporters planned a Fourth of July rally at the Lincoln Memorial which they called "Honor America Day."
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Despite the Nixon administration's claims that it would be a celebration of national unity, it quickly turned into a partisan fight.
"They ought to be clubbed," one attendee said of nearby hippies who were holding "a marijuana smoke-in"
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That evening, Honor America Day shifted to a musical revue hosted by Bob Hope at the base of the Washington Monument.
It quickly turned to chaos, with lighting trucks flipped over in the reflecting pool and the police launching tear gas that then blew back over the crowd.
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As I noted there, the organizers soon put out a double album of the evening's events -- with all the protests and chaos edited out of it. Jimmy Stewart did the narration.
You can listen to it all here:
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WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)republicans in line and excited.
All he's really doing is copying Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Those losers have been manipulating republicans for decades.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I would love to see an MRI of his brain.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)Goddamn traitor
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Always claims the opposite of the truth, and once again doing this while he's attacking Democracy and trying to claim patriotism is just another ruse he's using too make people think he's for our country, when he clearly isn't. He's a fascist dictator willing to do anything to get absolute power any way he can, and destroy each institution from within. The republican party is now the party of hate and fear run by fascists who accept caging and abusing children, attacking minorities and immigrants, and using an enemy dictator 's help in rigging an election for him . He's no patriot, he's a treasonous corrupt career criminal who is a serial liar and con man running a political ponzi scheme using our government to back him up with. The nightmare is almost over. They're closing in on all of them now.