Trump extols America, rails at communism in July Fourth speech at Mount Rushmore
Trump used the anniversary speech to rally Republicans and renew calls for voting changes as 61% of Americans said the country falls short of its ideals.
- President Donald Trump kicked off the nation's 250th-anniversary celebrations Friday night with a high-profile Independence Eve address delivered directly at the foot of Mount Rushmore.
- The speech focused heavily on a "resurgence of the communist menace in our land," with Trump declaring communism the greatest threat to the country, putting it on par with both world wars and the 9/11 terror attacks.
- Trump directly framed the upcoming 2026 midterm elections around ideological loyalty, targeting rising progressive factions by telling the South Dakota crowd, "You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both."
- The address offered a direct counter-narrative to a speech by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who hours earlier utilized a historic City Hall desk to deliver an alternative Independence address criticizing wealthy elites, isolationism, and immigration policy.
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On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence, Donald Trump went to Mount Rushmore, a land stolen from the Lakotas natives, where the faces of four US presidents were carved. While he spoke of glorious history, he warned against the return of "communism".
Shortly before the peak of the 250-year celebration, the President of Mount Rushmore spoke of how unique the United States was. He did not mention his desire to be immortalized there.
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"You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You can't be both." With this ideological dilemma Donald Trump gave the starting gun of the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States in a stage loaded with symbolism: at the foot of the national monument of Mount Rushmore, on whose rock the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are carved on illegally e…
Trump laments 'attack' on American identity and blasts 'communist menaces', as US turns 250
Searing temperatures have done little to deter President Donald Trump, who has gone to great lengths to ensure the event becomes, in large part, a celebration of himself.
Trump extols America, rails at communism in US 250th celebration
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Americans to protect the freedoms the nation's founders envisioned 250 years ago against what he has portrayed as the "communist" threat posed by progressive Democrats, speaking on the eve of Independence Day at Mount Rushmore.
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