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Trump to visit Mount Rushmore to mark US 250th celebrations

The event will feature fireworks, military bands and flyovers as Trump uses the milestone to rally supporters and promote his political brand.

  • On Friday, July 3, 2026, President Donald Trump arrived at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to deliver a nationalist address and watch the first fireworks display at the monument since 2020.
  • Freedom 250, a White House-aligned organization, organized the event as a rival to the bipartisan America250 Commission, which Congress established a decade ago to oversee national anniversary programming.
  • Extreme heat indexes reaching 115 degrees forced cancellations of Independence Day festivities across several states, while a federal appeals court paused a lower-court order requiring the National Park Service to reinstall removed exhibits.
  • During his remarks, Trump warned that communism poses a "mortal threat" to American liberty and tied his rhetoric to immigration enforcement, labeling progressive Democrats a danger to the nation's founding values.
  • Mount Rushmore faces $57 million in deferred maintenance needs, highlighting ongoing tensions over federal resource allocation as voters remain divided on the president's role in the milestone celebrations.
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(Agenzia Vista) Rome, July 04, 2026 "250 years, what an important day. I consider it so because I am here with you; it is an aspect that I appreciate very much. And, among other things, here we have achieved great victories. We have won overwhelmingly, every single time. But tomorrow, 250 years later, the words of our Declaration of Independence have provoked a tellurgy that has gone through all the successive epochs. They have given rise to a r…

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Argus Leader broke the news on Thursday, July 2, 2026.
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