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Trump Delivers Elaborate Fourth of July Event Showcasing Military – Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—President Trump delivered his elaborate Fourth of July celebration, defying critics and honoring the military.

Rain fell throughout a hot, muggy afternoon in the nation’s capital, but thousands showed up to hear the evening address, part of Mr. Trump’s “Salute to America” that featured flyovers of booming jet fighters, military…

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President Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ Fourth of July – USA TODAY

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Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s 4th of July – The Washington Post

July 5 at 6:00 AM

From the president’s vantage point, his supporters looked like they were in cages. Their fingers curled around chain-link. Bellies smushed against butts. When their knees gave out, they sat on ponchos and muddy blankets and squares of wet cardboard. The air, scented by sodden socks and bug spray, sagged with humidity. When the breeze picked up, so did the sensation that everything was surrounded by a battalion of toilets. It was difficult to move, to escape, but then no one was trying to do so. They were grateful to be here, soaked by hours of drizzle, hugged by a lazy heat, waiting hours and hours for him, for the show. The president had invited them to express their love of country in a maze of corrals, on a truly crappy day of weather, but they didn’t feel like prisoners of pomp, or slaves to circumstance, but jubilant pilgrims thrilled to be counted as citizens of the “most just and virtuous republic ever conceived,” as the president put it.

Signs of distress were isolated. “CLOSE the CAMPS” said one sign, pressed against the fence toward the Lincoln Memorial, in reference to the squalid detention centers holding asylum-seeking migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Even if the letters were big enough for the president to read, his attention was on his teleprompter text. He was talking about conquering other planets.

“Someday soon,” President Trump declared from a dais of red carpet, “we will plant the American flag on Mars.”

The United States has turned 243 years old, which is adolescent for an empire (at least when compared to Rome). This might explain the national mood swings and infatuations, the cliques and the clumsiness, the tendency to bully or be bullied. It might explain why the 45th president wanted to fly a series of loud machines over the Mall, and why his haters wanted to fly a blimp of him as an infant, diapered and cranky. The blimp was inflated, but never flew.

A crowd watches a military flyover at the Fourth of July Independence Day ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

“Officials pulled the plug yesterday right when we were about to get helium,” grumbled Joe Kennedy, the blimp baby’s guardian, across the street from the World War II Memorial on Thursday morning. Armed with nearly a dozen sandbags, two turbine leaf blowers and one bike pump, eight sweaty volunteers unfurled the baby’s flattened skin and inflated it in parts: first, its tiny orange hands. Then its body, but only halfway, because the ears had to be filled before the body could be hoisted upright.

People had staked out spots around the Reflecting Pool by 9 a.m. — a full nine hours before the “Salute to America” program started — as the president himself arrived at his golf club in Sterling, Va. The earthbound blimp was fully inflated by 11. By midafternoon a slight but stubborn rainstorm settled over the capital and a wild assortment of Americans mingled in front of the White House. An irate New Yorker, a wolf tattoo on his bicep, shouted about how men have no rights anymore. A Bernie Sanders supporter with a Go-Pro on his shoulder debated people through a megaphone. Black-clad members of the Revolutionary Communist Organization set fire to an American flag. Tourists took selfies as if it was all perfectly natural.

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Around the Reflecting Pool, in the hours before the president’s address, all was joyful and polite, if crowded and with limited views.

Normally a Trump rally is a Caucasian affair, but his “Salute to America” was a mishmash of ethnicities, languages, ages and intentions. Some were there for the spectacle. Some were there to bask in the president’s glory. Some with there as proud soldiers of Q, a baffling conspiracy theory that has flourished in the Trump era. Is it a religion that believes in secret cabals? Or a cult fantasizing about a coup?

“Think of it as a frequency, as a resonance,” said a Q guy from Atlanta who declined to give his name because he preferred to be “clandestine.” He had a shirt that said “TRUMP/JFK JR. 2020,” which was not meant to be interpreted as a literal ticket, he said, but as an occasion to liberate your mind from the usual parameters of, uh, life and death and the space-time continuum — maybe? They’re awfully nice people, these Q people here, and they love how President Trump has exposed the cracks in our accepted reality. They love how the light is shining through now.

A wall of dark clouds had begun building behind the Lincoln Memorial, sack-clothing the sunset. Trump’s exit from the White House was broadcast live to the crowd on giant screens. At 6:37 p.m. the presidential airplane buzzed the Mall, and then Trump walked onstage as if he had parachuted out. “Hello, America,” he said, though he was obscured from the crowd, fittingly, by the biggest TV screen of all.

The president, who loves to veer off script, stuck to it. He talked about Lewis and Clark, about Thomas Edison, about Apollo 11, about Sept. 11. He began to list the military accomplishments of the United States. A thousand feet to his left — beyond the memorial to the war he avoided with five draft deferments — was a statue of Albert Einstein, who said 90 years ago that “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

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As the military flyovers continued, 18-year-old Lucia Driessen ventured into the crowd blowing a whistle and holding a sign that said, “TRUMP DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU.” As a recent high school graduate who lives in the heavily Democratic capital, this was by far the largest amount of Trump supporters she’d ever seen in person.

“Close the camps!” she yelled to attendees.

“U-S-A!” the crowd chanted back at her, and she cringed at the implication of the rejoinder. A B2 stealth bomber, a jagged black terror, screamed overhead as the president held his chin high.

Trump’s been doing this kind of thing for years, though never with the U.S. military as his production team. In April 1990, when he opened the doomed Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, a 43-year-old Donald Trump arranged 5 ½ minutes of fireworks that were half-obscured by his own building, insinuated that he had cured a disabled guest of honor and — after his podium spittled theatrical fog — told the crowd to “have a nice life.” (His business would file for bankruptcy the following year.)

“There goes a good man,” a retired Coast Guardsman told The Washington Post at that long-ago event.

“It’s the media who projects him as a bigot or a racist,” retiree David Limina told The Post on Thursday, seated in a red camper chair.

Trump’s takeover of Washington’s holiday custom only went so far. Over on the other side of the Mall was the usual “Capitol Fourth” concert, where MAGA attire was scarce. Around 7 p.m. there was only one visible red hat, and it belonged to Wendy McHugh, 55, a registered nurse from Georgia. She took a circumspect view of the flyovers, the tanks, the president’s spin on the holiday.

“There’s going to be controversy, there’s going to be division, but that’s okay,” McHugh said. “That’s how we grow.”

Soon after Trump departed one side of the Mall, the concert began on the other side. In between, near the Washington Monument, was a wide expanse of families on blankets, waiting for the fireworks. The mood was peaceful, save for a single locus of agitation. By a portable statue of Trump sitting on a giant gold toilet, a handful of protesters blew whistles until their faces were flushed pink. They held signs that called attention to militarization, to the crisis at the border, to the precarious state of the rule of law. They were blowing whistles to puncture the picnic vibe, to signal that America was in crisis, that the empire was not maturing but devolving.

A nearby stack of speakers thundered with Sousa marches until TV star John Stamos kicked off the Capitol Fourth concert.

“I see a mosaic of different histories,” Stamos said, his voice piped all over the Mall, echoing into a garble.

A band of young white supremacists began to confront the protesters.

“All part of the fabric that makes us an American family,” went the disembodied voice of Stamos.

A scowling man in a MAGA hat put his fist near a protester’s face and turned his thumb down. Dusk was falling. The whistles reached a shrieking volume.

“Let’s love each other as citizens,” Stamos said, and the whistles kept going and going and going.

Travis DeShong and Terry Nguyen contributed to this report.

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‘Are you proud to be an American?’ Why Trump’s 4th of July was a tale of three different celebrations – USA TODAY

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The nation’s capital ended a day full of Independence Day celebrations with fireworks.
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WASHINGTON – Fourth of July festivities in the nation’s capital were anything but typical this year. It wasn’t just the military tanks, jet flyovers or the speech by President Donald Trump.

The president’s role in what is usually a nonpartisan celebration created what felt like three different events: Protesters who decried his administration and its policies; a campaign rally where supporters cheered for him to keep the White House for another term; and those who simply wanted to enjoy hot dogs and fireworks with their families for the annual Independence Day festivities.

On a holiday marking America’s birthday, the country’s divisions were on full display.

There was a giant blimp depicting the president as an orange infant. There was also a sea of red, “Make America Great Again” hats. And there were families spread out along the National Mall with blankets and children anxiously awaiting the fireworks display and not focused on politics.

When the protesters and Trump supporters clashed over a flag burning in front of the White House, there were two arrests, although most confrontations did not go beyond shouting matches.

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Trump supporters line parade route

Trump’s influence on the annual celebrations were easy to spot.

Supporters poured into the National Mall throughout the day, many waving “Trump 2020” flags or wearing “MAGA” hats. They passed by the heckling of protesters with disgust, some yelling “SNOWFLAKES!” to the crowds gathered in opposition of Trump.

In the afternoon at the National Independence Day Parade parade, thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch floats, drum lines and military units march by. As the parade marched on, the heat did too. Spectators migrated towards the shade, picking up ice-cold bottles of water from vendors, to watch the parade.

Hundreds of Trump supporters were part of the crowd that lined Constitution Avenue.

Trump’s new campaign slogan, ‘Keep America Great,’ also filled the surrounding streets of the parade. Vendor stands at nearly every corner pushed Trump hats and paraphernalia on energetic supporters.

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Jim Sutton usually attends the parade each year with his wife, Gigi. But the couple, who sported head-to-toe Trump gear, said something felt different this year.

“It’s just fantastic,” Gigi Sutton said, in her white Trump T-shirt and flag pants. The pair said the criticism of Trump’s use of military equipment in the event was unwarranted.

“We’ve been having all these problems with Iran, North Korea. This says something,” Gigi Sutton said. Her husband chimed in, “It let’s the world know our nation’s defense is well at hand.”

After watching Trump’s speech and the military aircraft flyovers for each branch of the military, Amiee LeDoux was left in tears.

“That was the first time I ever cried during the Fourth of July,” LeDoux, who traveled with her family from New Hampshire, said as she started to tear up again. “I just felt like it really embraced who we are and it just felt like God was really honored, and America was honored and the military was honored.”

Wearing a blue Trump hat, LeDoux said she thought Trump’s speech helped bring the country together.

“I think there was a lot of unity and the mentioning of our history and how rich of a history we have, it was just so beautiful,” she said.

Blimps, toilet robots, burning flags

While the event was mostly peaceful, a fight broke out at a flag burning event in front of the White House that led to at least two arrests.

Trump supporters, some wearing hats emblazoned with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, charged a circle of protesters who were burning a flag, causing the protesters to topple over. The Trump supporters, some of whom were wearing attire identifying themselves as Proud Boys, a far-right organization, attempted to stamp out the fire.

But the flag burning was far from the only act of protest happening in the heart of Washington. Many wore shirts about impeaching Trump or supporting Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic rival in the 2016 election. They carried balloons depicting Trump as a small, orange baby — a miniature depiction of a famous blimp that was briefly inflated on the National Mall.

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Along with the Baby Trump blimp, the liberal activist organization Code Pink also parked a 16-foot-tall “Dumping Trump” robot featuring the president sitting on a golden toilet wearing a MAGA-style hat saying “Make America Great Again: Impeach Me.”

The robot sporadically shouted out some of Trump’s most-used lines, including “no collusion” and “witch hunt.”

Nearby, Noel Eldridge gathered with the nearly 100 protesters, holding a sign plastered with photographs of migrant detention centers. It read “Are you proud to be American? Today?”

Eldridge said he grew up in the same New York neighborhood as Trump. “I know the particular kind of bully and racist he is,” Eldridge said.

Just yards away, a miniature baby Trump balloon was locked inside of a metal cage. Linda Berns said she has traveled from her home in Bethesda, Md. each year for 40 years to watch the fireworks along the National Mall. This year, she came to protest.

She said she joined the protest against Trump’s immigration policies because of her family’s history. “This is a country of immigrants,” Berns said. “My grandparents were immigrants.”

Anne and Emily Balderson, both waving mini-Trump-baby balloons, came to D.C. from Texas to experience the holiday in the capital but said Trump role in the event was unnecessary and causing more division in the country.

“I think it’s making 4th of July more of a divisive holiday,” Emily Balderson said. “He’s making it about himself instead of the country and it should just be about how our country was founded.”

Charlotte Stolz, center, 8, jumps with excitement as she is doused with red and blue colored powder while crossing the finish line in the 3rd annual Red, White, and Blue Color Run on Thursday, July 4, 2019, at Joe Mack Campbell Park in Jonesboro, Ark. The race was the culmination of the 4th Fest event which also included fireworks the previous night. Money from the race will be donated to benefit flooding victims in Arkansas. Quentin Winstine, The Jonesboro Sun via AP

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An apolitical event for families

At the opposite end of the National Mall, near the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument, things were different. There were no protests. Scarcely anyone wore Trump attire.

Instead, families, wearing red, white and blue, sat on blankets, held up small American flags and enjoyed the music from the “A Capitol Fourth” concert.

After the last of the military jets flew over the crowd and many left, families were left camped out on picnic blankets, and kids huddled together under umbrellas eager to watch the fireworks display. Some came more prepared than others, with plastic bags to put under their blankets and rain ponchos with hoods.

David Portis was among those camped out. He said there were remarkably fewer people along the Mall than he remembered in past years, which he blamed on the rain and not the additions to the program.

Portis said he was neutral on Trump’s presence during the holiday. “I even brought my daughter and her friend,” he said, pointing to an open grassy area near the Washington Monument where a group of children were playing ball barefooted.

Others also weren’t preoccupied by the politics thrust into the event.

Mitchell Reed, the band director for a group of 99 Florida high school students who attended the concert and played during a parade earlier in the day, said the event took on a different meaning for his group.

“It’s been crazy,” he said as he watched the nearby concert. “But it’s a day everyone in our band will never forget.”

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CNN cuts to commercial during Trump’s July 4 speech – Washington Examiner

CNN cut to a commercial about a half-hour into President Trump’s Fourth of July speech Thursday, the event having evidently not proven important enough to remain tuned in to despite several days of controversy leading up to it.

The cable network cut away as Trump was giving a salute to the U.S. Air Force, part of the event’s tribute to the five branches of the U.S. military, and a B-2 flyover.

The cable channel had devoted the hours leading up to the event to covering the controversy surrounding it. When leaked excerpts of Trump’s speech revealed nothing that was controversial, the network’s pundits suggested that Trump might still stray from the speech.

“Military chiefs have concerns about the politicization of President Donald Trump’s July 4 event, a source with direct knowledge told CNN … If the President turns what is meant to be celebration into an overtly political event, he could put military personnel in the position of violating Defense Department guidelines prohibiting men and women in uniform from engaging in political activity,” the network reported earlier in the day.

Trump’s speech turned out to be a roughly 50-minute salute to the soldiers, sailors, pilots, and marines who defend the country.

“Today, we come together as one nation with this very special Salute to America. We celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag — the brave men and women of the United States military,” he said.

Among CNN’s cable news competitors, Fox News carried the “Salute to America” event live while MSNBC aired the first Democratic presidential primary debate instead.

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American patriotism is a local affair – Washington Examiner

In the presidency of Donald Trump, even Fourth of July fireworks become controversial. The controversies arise both because of Trump’s extraordinary way of doing things and because of the overblown reactions of the news media and other members of the opposition.

We share some of the standard criticisms of Trump’s show, although not the vehemence. But we’d like to add one point that we hope will take root with the Left. It is about localism and centralization.

Maybe you’re more concerned about the prospect of tanks rolling down Constitution Avenue. We understand. We don’t think this is a good look, either. We’ve editorialized that governments who do these ostentatious displays of military might typically are compensating for a sense of insecurity.

But such a parade is hardly unprecedented. John F. Kennedy, the Democrats’ great hero, had a military parade through Washington, D.C., with missiles and armored cars as part of his inauguration. JFK did it for a show of strength during the Cold War. Trump could make a similar argument, but we don’t agree. The United States could destroy any enemy in short order, and the rest of the world knows it.

Once again, Trump does something unneeded but precedented, and opposing partisans falsely call it unnecessary or unheard of.

Then, there’s the problem of Trump mixing campaign fundraising and government. The Republican National Committee is hosting a private party at the Lincoln Memorial. That means that military grandeur is helping the GOP court its bigwigs. This use of the incumbent advantage is not new either, but it’s fairly swampy.

We also mildly lament the imposition on Washingtonians. Trump’s decisions have added headaches and hassles to Independence Day in the federal capital. Flights will have to halt out of Reagan Airport. Security will be tighter around the National Mall. The Lincoln Memorial will be mostly off-limits. Tanks will clog the streets and possibly exacerbate the potholes, although plenty of children and adults will probably like the idea of taking selfies with the military hardware.

But our main objection is none of these things. It is, rather, that the president should not try to make himself or Washington the center of national attention on Independence Day.

The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday, and American patriotism has most often manifested itself locally. When you ask old men and women, in their “Make America Great Again” garb, what was great about America back in the day, they’ll often cite a greater sense of national unity and pride. But the examples they give are very local, such as the Memorial Day parade through town, the local heroes hill, and, of course, their town’s fireworks show.

Americans salute America and its founding not through focusing our attention on the seat of government but by rekindling connections with neighbors, parading tricycles through town, grilling burgers and hot dogs, and laying down a picnic blanket to take our ease and view the local pyrotechnics.

Other countries have their national holiday on a day of unification. Belgium celebrates the crowning of King Leopold. France celebrates with a big military parade on Bastille Day; that’s where Trump got the idea. But in this country, we celebrate something different: independence. Being free in America, first of all, means breaking away.

America’s strength has always been in its decentralization, our hundreds of thousands of little platoons. We wish Trump well with his fireworks show and dinner party on Constitution Avenue. We just hope he doesn’t expect Americans to tune in to his show rather than staring at the neighborhood sky.

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CNN Exclusive: Joe Biden says he wasn’t prepared for Kamala Harris to confront him the way she did – CNN

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Trump praises US military in rare Independence Day speech – Aljazeera.com

Washington, DC, United States – US President Donald Trump has praised the military in his Independence Day speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC amid a display of military strength.

“We celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag – the brave men and women of the United States military!” he said on Thursday.

Trump became the first US president in more than 70 years to deliver an Independence Day address as hundreds of people – both his supporters and opponents – gathered to celebrate the country’s declaration of independence from Britain on July 4, 1776.

Inspired by the exhibition of French military strength he witnessed while attending Bastille Day in Paris in 2017, the Republican president turned the event into a celebration of the US military.

The Salute To America event boasted flyover from army jets and helicopters, as well as a collection of armoured vehicles that included Abrams tanks and Bradley armoured vehicles.

Trump’s speech to the nation centred on the US’s military strength, lavishing extensive praise on each branch of the military, touting the armed forces and their history as the example of strength and unity to which ordinary citizens should aspire to.

“There will be nothing that America cannot do” as long as Americans remain true to their history and “never stop fighting for a better future,” said Trump. He also promised to plant the US flag on Mars.

Politicisation of holiday

Critics of the president, including members of the press and the opposition Democratic party and even former military leaders, expressed concern that Trump was not only politicising a national holiday, but also the military in the process.

Despite reports of sightings of military vehicles around the US capital in the days preceding the event, the military hardware remained hidden from the general public for most of the day, tucked far behind chain link fences surrounding the Lincoln Memorial.

Much more visible were the displays of partisan affiliation among Trump supporters, large numbers of whom attended the parade and subsequent events sporting shirts, flags, and hats emblazoned with pro-Trump slogans.

Lore Emelio, a North Carolina resident who attended Thursday’s event with her six-year-old son, described the atmosphere as feeling “more politicised” and “resentful” than July 4 celebrations she was accustomed to.

Emelio also wanted to take her son to the Lincoln Memorial, “the one thing he wanted to see most”, only to find it cordoned off ahead of Trump’s speech.

Carmen Arrezola from Virginia also expressed dissatisfaction with this year’s proceedings, saying the presence of military vehicles gave her the impression of “living in a military order”.

Ashton Whitty, a Trump supporter from Berkeley, California, couldn’t see anything wrong with the military hardware on display and disagreed that Trump had politicised this year’s celebrations.

“It’s not a Nazi thing,” she said, standing near the chain-link fence separating the Lincoln Memorial from the general public. “[Americans] live in the greatest country in the world. I think all presidents should address the American people like this.”

‘This is not North Korea’

Jason Frank, a Las Vegas resident who had been conversing with Whitty, agreed. Having registered to vote for the first time at the age of 41 with the express purpose of re-electing Trump, Frank described this year’s Independence Day celebration as “a beautiful thing”. “Without [Independence Day] we don’t have anything. If you know the history, you honour it for what it is.”

Less than a mile away and still on the National Mall, the anti-imperialist group CodePink held a small protest anchored by a blimp depicting Trump as an enormous baby and a five-metre statue of Trump sitting on a golden toilet.

“We’re glad we have a little liberated space here to say this is not what our holiday should be about,” said CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin.

“We’re opposed to a lot of the policies that Trump has been instrumental in implementing like caging children on the border, like threatening to go to war with Iran, whipping up Islamophobia and racist sentiments.”

Nearby, a man carrying a yellow flag with the words: “Don’t Tread on Me” written across it sparred loudly with a woman who had come to join the CodePink protest.

While most of the discussions taking place between Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters appeared relatively cordial, some occasionally devolved into abrasive exchanges.

In spite of Benjamin saying she didn’t think clashes were likely, CodePink had asked park police to intervene when a Trump supporter threatened to attack the baby blimp.

Felicia, who had come all the way from New Jersey to participate in the protest, rued the politicisation of the event.

“This is not Red Square, this is not North Korea. Why does he [Trump] need to turn traditional family celebration into a show of military might?” she asked.

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Trump calls bluff of critics in July 4th speech – CNN

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Southern California hit by 6.6 earthquake – KVOA Tucson News

KVOA, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Tucson, Arizona, United States. KVOA consistently delivers the stories that people care about, and a highlight of its top-rated newscasts is News 4 Tucson Investigators, the station’s award-winning investigative unit.

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Watch President Donald Trump’s Full July 4th ‘Salute To America’ Military Event | NBC News – NBC News

From military tanks and aircraft flyovers, President Trump hosted a military-style display on the National Mall in Washington.
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Billionaire Chris Cline dies in a helicopter crash near the Bahamas, governor says – CNN

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Politics President Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ Fourth of July – USA TODAY

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Three people were stabbed and 16 others were trampled trying to leave a fireworks display in Chicago – CNN

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Politics President Trump’s "Salute to America” Fourth of July President Trump’s "Salute to America” Fourth of – USA TODAY

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Donald Trump trips up on history in 4th of July speech, mentions airports during Revolutionary War – USA TODAY

President Donald Trump celebrated America as “the most exceptional nation in the history of the world” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy, cheering crowd of spectators. He spoke on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial Thursday. (July 4)
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‘No one wants to go inside’: People flee their homes after 6.4 quake rattles Southern California – CNN

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Salute to America: Watch live stream of Trump’s 4th of July "Salute to America" in Washington DC today on CBSN – speech, fireworks, schedule, live updates – CBS News

Ticketing controversy sparks criticism

The “Salute to America” event is open to the public. But, as CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett has reported, there is a specific, ticketed area for VIPs, friends and family and members of the military, although the White House has refused to clarify exactly who would get those tickets. Garrett reports many tickets will be going to GOP donors.

The Pentagon, as CBS News’ David Martin has reported, was given 5,000 tickets to hand out to military families.

That’s controversial because taxpayers, not the Trump campaign or the Republican party or anyone else, is funding the “Salute to America” event.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) confirmed they did receive some tickets for the event.

“It’s standard practice for the RNC to receive a small number of tickets to events just as the DNC did under Democrat presidents. This is routine for events like the White House Christmas open houses, garden tours in spring and fall, etc.,” a spokesperson for the RNC told CBS News’ Sara Cook.

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Flag burned in front of White House as tensions mount ahead of Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ – Fox News

A supporter of President Donald Trump who gave his name as Moto Moto, left, of Brooklyn, N.Y., debates with protesters in front of a sculpture of President Trump holding a cell phone while sitting on a toilet before Independence Day celebrations, Thursday, July 4, 2019, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Multiple protesters were arrested in front of the White House on Thursday after an American flag was set ablaze in protest to President Trump’s “Salute to America” event, scheduled to take place later in the evening.

While it is unclear who or what group burnt the flag, video from Washington shows a number of protesters forming in a circle before the flag goes up in flames. At least three people were detained by the Secret Service.

The burning was followed by scuffles between left-wing activists and supporters of Trump.

‘SALUTE TO AMERICA’ CRITICS FUELED BY ‘HATE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’: KAYLEIGH MCENANY

A group called the Revolution Club had earlier sent out a press release on Wednesday announcing its intent to burn an American flag.

“Tomorrow on the Fourth of July, I am going to be [burning the American flag] right here … in front of the White House,” Gregory “Joey” Johnson, a member of the Revolution Club, said during a Wednesday press conference. “I’m going to be speaking to the people of the world letting them know that there are people inside the borders of this country who stand with the people of the world.”

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Besides the flag burning, Washington police and District of Colombia National Guard troops have had their hands full this Fourth of July dealing with the influx of both protesters and revelers in town for Trump’s extravaganza.

In the shadow of the Washington Monument, the anti-war organization Codepink erected a 20-foot tall “Trump baby” balloon to protest what it called the president’s co-opting of Independence Day.

DEMS FUME AS TRUMP MOVES TO AMEND DC’S JULY 4 CELEBRATION

“We think that he is making this about himself and it’s really a campaign rally,” said Medea Benjamin, the organization’s co-director. “We think that he’s a big baby. … He’s erratic, he’s prone to tantrums, he doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions. And so this is a great symbol of how we feel about our president.”

The balloon remained tied down at the Mall because park officials restricted the group’s permission to move it or fill it with helium, Benjamin said.

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Protesters also handed out small Trump-baby balloons on sticks. Molly King of La Porte, Ind., a 13-year-old Trump supporter in sunglasses and a “Make America Great Again” hat, happily came away with one.

“They’re making a big stink about it but it’s actually pretty cute,” she said. “I mean, why not love your president as you’d love a baby?”

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A small crowd gathered to take pictures with the big balloon, which drew Trump supporters and detractors.

“Even though everybody has different opinions,” said Kevin Malton, a Trump supporter from Middlesboro, Ky., “everybody’s getting along.”

But Daniela Guray, a 19-year-old from Chicago who held a “Dump Trump” sign, said she was subjected to a racial epithet while walking along the Constitution Avenue parade route and told to go home.

She said she did not come to the Mall to protest but ended up doing so. “I started seeing all the tanks with all the protests and that’s when I said, ‘Wait, this is not an actual Fourth of July,'” she said. “Trump is making it his day rather than the Fourth of July.”

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Trump doubles down on citizenship question for 2020 census, reportedly mulls executive order – Fox News

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President Trump still fighting for census citizenship question

Trump dismisses reports that efforts to include a U.S. citizenship question in the 2020 census have been abandoned; Kevin Corke reports from the White House.

President Trump on Thursday doubled down on his push for a citizenship question on the 2020 census, promising that his administration is “working very hard” on the controversial issue — as reports say he is mulling using an executive order to get the question on the census.

“So important for our Country that the very simple and basic ‘Are you a Citizen of the United States?’ question be allowed to be asked in the 2020 Census,” he tweeted.

TRUMP DECLARES PUSH FOR CENSUS CITIZENSHIP QUESTION NOT OVER, CALLS REPORTS ‘FAKE’

He added that the Commerce and Justice Departments are “working very hard on this, even on the 4th of July!”

Earlier this week, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that his department was going ahead with the printing of the census without the citizenship question, apparently indicating that the administration had dropped the controversial issue. That decision came after a Supreme Court ruling last week that blocked the citizenship question for the time being until more reasoning from the administration was provided.

“The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question,” Ross said in a statement. “My focus and that of the bureau and the entire department is to conduct a complete and accurate census.”

The Commerce Department had claimed that the question would help the administration enforce the Voting Rights Act. Opponents of the question fear that by asking people about their citizenship status, immigrants may not want to respond and be counted in the census. This would result in official population numbers that are lower than they truly are, which in turn could yield less federal funding and fewer congressional seats in districts with high immigrant populations. Those districts tend to favor Democrats.

Ross’ announcement appeared to mark a significant climbdown for the administration. But Trump on Wednesday said that reports that Commerce had dropped the “quest” to put the question on the census were “fake!”

“We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question,” he tweeted.

IN REVERSAL, DOJ SAYS IT IS STILL TRYING TO ADD CITIZENSHIP QUESTION TO CENSUS; JUDGE SETS FRIDAY DEADLINE

Later Wednesday, a high-ranking Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge that the administration had not abandoned efforts to put the question on the census, saying that there may yet be a “legally available path” open to the administration.

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On Thursday, multiple outlets reported that Trump is considering using an executive order to move forward with the push. The Washington Post reported that Trump had told lawyers to fix the situation with an executive order and add it to the census later.

“The administration is considering the appropriateness of an executive order that would address the constitutional need for the citizenship question to be included in the 2020 census,” a source told Axios.

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Such a move would likely face significant legal pushback, and could also fail in the Supreme Court. But one official told Axios that it may allow the administration to shift the blame for the ultimate failure of the push on Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

“I think that there’s a good argument to be made that even though the president may lose in litigation at the end of the day, going through that process ultimately makes it clear that it’s the chief justice, and not the Executive Branch, that bears responsibility for that unfortunate outcome,” the source with knowledge of discussions told the outlet.

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer and Gregg Re contributed to this report.

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Tanker full of Iranian oil intercepted en route to Syria – New York Post

MADRID — Authorities in Gibraltar said Thursday they intercepted an Iranian supertanker believed to be breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Tehran’s crude oil to war-ravaged Syria.

A senior Spanish official said the operation was requested by the United States. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency described the incident as “an illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.”

Gibraltar port and law enforcement agencies, assisted by Britain’s Royal Marines, boarded the Grace 1 early Thursday, authorities on the British overseas territory at the tip of Spain said in a statement.

It added that the vessel was believed to be headed to the Baniyas Refinery in Syria, a government-owned facility under the control of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and subject to the EU’s Syrian Sanctions Regime.

The EU and others have imposed sanctions on Assad’s government over its continued crackdown against civilians. They currently target 270 people and 70 entities.

Spain’s caretaker foreign minister Josep Borrell said the tanker was stopped by British authorities after a request from the United States.

Iran later summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to answer questions about the operation. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet that Rob Macaire was summoned over the “illegal interception” of the ship.

Mousavi later called the ship’s seizure “odd and destructive.” ”It can cause an increase in tensions in the region,” he said in a live telephone interview on state television Thursday night.

In Madrid, Borrell told reporters that Spain is assessing the implications of the operation because the detention took place in waters it considers its own.

Britain insists Gibraltar is part of the United Kingdom but Spain argues that it is not, and the tanker operation risks offending the Spanish.

“We’re looking into how this (operation) affects our sovereignty,” said Borrell, who was nominated earlier this week to become the EU’s foreign policy chief.

The Gibraltar authorities didn’t confirm the origin of the ship’s cargo, but Lloyd’s List, a publication specializing in maritime affairs, reported this week that the Panama-flagged large carrier was laden with Iranian oil.

According to a UN list, the ship is owned by Singapore-based Grace Tankers Ltd.

The vessel likely carried just over 2 million barrels of Iranian crude oil, the data firm Refinitv said. Tracking data showed that the tanker made a slow trip around the southern tip of Africa before reaching the Mediterranean, it said.

The tanker’s detention comes at a particularly sensitive time as tensions between the US and Iran grow over the unraveling of a 2015 nuclear deal, which President Donald Trump withdrew the US from last year. Trump has also slapped sanctions on Iran and recently approved the passage of a carrier group, bombers and fighter jets to the Persian Gulf.

In recent days, Iran has broken through the limit the deal put on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium and plans on Sunday to boost its enrichment. Meanwhile, oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz have been targeted in mysterious attacks as Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen launch bomb-laden drones into Saudi Arabia. The US has rushed thousands of additional troops, an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and F-22 fighters to the region, raising fears of a miscalculation sparking a wider conflict. Last month Iran shot down a US surveillance drone, further stoking those fears.

Iran’s intelligence minister said Thursday that any negotiations with the US would have to be approved by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and would require the lifting of US sanctions. Khamenei has until now ruled out talks with the US, saying that Washington cannot be trusted.

On Thursday, the official IRNA news agency quoted Information Minister Mahmoud Alavi as saying that “if the supreme leader permits, negotiations between Iran and the United States will be held.” He added, however, that Tehran would not negotiate under pressure.

There was no immediate reaction to the tanker’s detention from Syria, which has suffered severe fuel shortages as a result of the civil war and Western sanctions that have crippled the country’s oil industry, once the source of 20 percent of government revenues.

Iran, which has provided vital military support to Assad, extended a $3 billion credit line for oil supplies beginning in 2013, but the Iranian aid dwindled as Washington restored tough sanctions. In November, the US Treasury Department added a network of Russian and Iranian companies to its blacklist for shipping oil to Syria and warned of “significant risks” for those violating the sanctions.

Fabian Picardo, chief minister of Gibraltar, which in the past has been a transit port for energy shipments without known buyers, said he has informed the EU about developments.

In a statement, the British government welcomed the “firm action” by authorities in Gibraltar.

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