Trump Faces Growing Concerns Ahead of July 4 Speech
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Why is Donald Trump panicking about his July 4 speech?
Donald Trump is panicking over his July 4th event in Washington, DC. Trump regime officials are scrambling. They want to cancel the event altogether. They are terrified that no one wants to show up to Donald Trump's speech on July 4th, which is set to take place late at night. And then the fireworks are set to take place at 11 PM. Donald Trump is screaming at his regime officials, blaming them for the fact that Nobody showed up to the so-called Great American State Fair, which isn't great, and it's not even a state fair. Trump blames his staff for the fact that nobody showed up to the speech he gave at the National Mall last week. He's also livid that his staff keeps on posting aerial footage and images of the crowd size at the fair and at the National Mall, showing how small the crowds were while Donald Trump is claiming 100%.
150,000 people are at the state fair every day.
What are the concerns regarding attendance at the July 4 event?
That's not true. Or when he says 40,000 people showed up at the speech I gave at the National Mall last week. That's not true. Trump regime officials are leaking to the press that this event on July 4th is going to be an absolute disaster. It's expected to be 107 degrees. There may be major thunderstorms as well. And again, Trump regime officials want this canceled. Let me show you what they are leaking to the press right now. Here is Caitlin Collins talking about how livid Donald Trump is of these aerial images. Let me play this for you.
Karen, I mean, the president and his allies have taken over the event and the planning of them. When it comes to crowd expectation, though, we're told that the aerial image of the crowds from his rally last week enraged him so much that officials ended up deleting them.
Then you have Caitlin Collins talking about the weather forecast on July 4th. And then Adam Kinzinger jumps in and talks about how Donald Trump only has himself to blame for just how bad this has all been. Play this clip.
I mean, part of this is just the heat, period. I mean, regardless of what's going on. The weather team here at CNN says that the forecast, 102 degrees on Saturday, is expected to be the hottest July 4th ever recorded. I mean, there's a list of what people can't even bring because of the tight security measures. reusable water bottles, sunscreen, bug spray, camping chairs, coolers, umbrellas. I mean, if you're a family and you're going out to watch fireworks that aren't expected to start until after the president has spoken, it might make it tough to hang out for hours on end, Adam.
Yeah, and I think, you know, look, maybe God's sending a message. I don't know. I can't speak for God. But yeah, I mean, look, I think that's clear. And again, nobody would care. I don't remember any time in the past people talking about the turnout for the July 4th fireworks on the Capitol, except that Donald Trump himself has made this. a referendum on him. It's always about crowd size. He said, you know, after all the people canceled that this will be a celebration. I think he recently even said that your greatest, the greatest president, your favorite president is going to speak at this. So he himself inserts himself into this. And so turnout, even if it's weather related, I mean, at that point, he basically has taken ownership of the turnout.
But again, just the sad thing here is we're in the 250th anniversary of this country, and it's been driven by division. And I'm sure each side will blame the other side, but clearly Donald Trump has pulled away from this idea of America 250, and Freedom 250 is his organization. It's all about him, and he has a 30% approval rating. So that's what's going to happen.
And you know, folks, this could have just been a great celebration of America's 250th birthday. This should have been a nonpartisan thing run through the Smithsonian. This should not have been something that was divisive. But Donald Trump turned this all about himself. And that's the main reason it's become this complete and utter failure, this complete and utter grift. And it's just so odd. I mean, I'll show you yesterday as Matt Ryan, who was there, writes, after many called it a Teemu arch, the Freedom 250 team added new columns to Trump's arch at the great American State Fair.
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