Trump launches America’s 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:30:35 GMT

In a speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday evening, the US president claimed a resurgent ‘communist menace’ posed a severe threat to the countryDonald Trump has kicked off America’s 250th birthday weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on what he called the “communist menace” in America, framing its supporters as “the enemy of July 4th, 1776”.The US president spoke for half an hour on Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the latest stop on his tour celebrating the milestone anniversary of the US declaration of independence from Britain. Continue reading...

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