Attendees had to wait to be readmitted to the area after bad weather set back the celebratory rally in Washington.

In mid-June, Trump announced the event on the National Mall would be the “most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all.”

President Donald Trump’s plans to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary of independence with a rally on the National Mall have been complicated by severe storms that have gathered near Washington, forcing event organizers to order an evacuation.

President Donald Trump is still trying to delay paying E. Jean Carroll the $5 million she was awarded in 2023 after a civil jury found he had assaulted and then defamed her. Despite losing every appeal he has pursued,

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President Donald Trump gives a speech at the Salute to America 250 celebration at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy: Freedom 250)

The biggest festivities are still to come, including a speech by the president and a fireworks display in Washington that is promised to be the biggest in history. Across the city of Philadelphia, bells started ringing at noon to mark the moment when the Continental Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence,

“America will never be a communist country. We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish, stupid and unwise,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles.

President Donald Trump compared his willingness—or, rather, eagerness—to deliver his July 4th speech after the National Mall was evacuated due to severe weather on Saturday to U.S. soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy during World War II.