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This video clip is an altered video of the the presidential Speech from Independence Day II, President Trump and others standing in. It has 3.3 million views in a matter of an hour.Its well worth watching. Makes me want to get ready for July 4th! (Video at link)

President Trump said Tuesday he’s planning to hold another Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall in Washington, one of the first big events he’s proposed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “On July 4, we will be doing what we had at the Mall,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “We’re going to be doing it. Last year was a tremendous success and I would imagine we’ll do it, hopefully I can use the term ‘forever.’ That was a great success.” Last year, Mr. Trump for the first time in his presidency delivered remarks on Independence Day on...

It's fair to say that a week doesn't go by where President Trump doesn't want to be the center of attention. That being the case, he must be well-satisfied with events leading up to the Fourth of July. He succeeded in creating another full-blown media panic about the erosion of democracy and the collapse of civilian control of the military, all because he is behaving like a dictator. The "news" manufacturers wanted us to know Trump was bending the national holiday into a celebration of his love of self. The Washington Post kicked off the hate-filled hyperbole when Trump first...

President Trump’s plan to turn the Fourth of July into a commercial for his reelection campaign paid off spectacularly, if you’re using Nielsen ratings as a metric. According to just-released figures from the audience-measurement company, more than 6 million Americans watched coverage of the Trump propaganda effort between 7 and 8 p.m. EDT last Thursday, the hour during which the former star of The Apprentice read remarks from a teleprompter. Unsurprisingly, Trump-friendly Fox News, which covered the event most exhaustingly, dominated the hour, notching an eye-popping 4.9 million viewers during the hour, about double what the network normally draws in...

After a roaring success on Independence Day, President Trump announced from the White House Monday afternoon Salute to America will take place again next year. "I hope you all had a truly wonderful Independence Day weekend in spite of the heavy rain, and it was really heavy, we had a remarkable Salute to America on the National Mall. Incredible," Trump said. "Standing on the steps of the great Lincoln Memorial and looking out on the crowd, these incredible, big beautiful crowds braving the weather all the way back to the Washington Monument, we celebrated freedom and all of its magnificence...

The media hastily have distanced themselves from their projections of street brawls and naked partisanship at the Salute to America event following a largely patriotic, unobjectionable July 4 speech by President Trump. Since TV news audiences are unlikely to hear talking heads acknowledge their numerous false predictions, here is a reminder of the worst of the bunch — ranging from the cynical to the absurd. News personalities also worried that the military parade had totalitarian undertones, taking the opportunity to compare the President to various authoritarian dictators for the ten millionth time. “The President’s vision bears a closer resemblance to...

Hillary Clinton is speaking out against President Donald Trump’s flashy display of military might for the Fourth of July, adding her voice to widespread criticisms of the event. “We need a strong national defense, but a president shouldn’t need it next to him in a parade to show his patriotism,” she wrote Thursday in a tweet.

On this Independence Day weekend, all Americans should thank God we live in this country. We are indeed fortunate to be Americans and reside in the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”This is the country that liberated the world from the horror of Nazism and Imperial Japan. We brought down the “evil empire” and freed millions of people from the grips of a communist dictatorship. In every major international organization, from the NATO alliance to the United Nations, our country plays a leadership role in financial diplomatic and military support. When a disaster hits anywhere in...

Happy Independence Day. What a great time to be an American. Despite all the hate speech from radical Democrats, we are still the greatest nation in world history, ever-blessed by God -- and the greatest economy by a mile and the greatest military by a mile and the country that most welcomes immigrants by a mile. So, what's the problem? Why the hate and self-loathing coming from Democrats and liberal groups? Did you watch the Democratic debates? The radical extremism on stage was sickening. Democrats live in a bubble. All they care about are illegal aliens and open borders. All...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Authorities say a family of four, including two children, are in the hospital after a major car fire that was sparked by a road rage shooting in north Harris County. The incident happened Thursday around 9:30 p.m. in the 1800 block of W. Mount Houston. Authorities say the father got into some sort of argument with the suspect. That suspect pulled out a gun, and the father tried to drive off. The gunman shot at the car, which set off fireworks in the vehicle, causing it to catch fire, deputies say. "Family had bought fireworks. It...

Journalists with Russian state-run media mocked the military hardware featured in President Trump’s “Salute to America...” During a broadcast of Russian television show “60 minutes,” which airs on the state-owned Russian television channel, Rossiya 1, journalists mocked the military equipment in footage of the hardware captured in Washington earlier this week... “The paint on these vehicles is peeling off. There are no cannons, and their optics have been glued on with adhesive tape,” co-host Olga Skabeyeva claimed during the program. “Americans are allowed to hold a parade because theirs is democratic, but we are not allowed because ours is chauvinistic,”...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, referred to America's birthday this week as "swamp day." In Washington, DC, Trump celebrated Swamp Day by: 1.) Making July 4th an ode to himself; 2.) Diverting $2.5 million in Park funds to pay for it; 3) Taking $750,000 in fireworks from a donor; and 4) Postponing tariffs on China the same day, as the donor wanted. Happy 4th!— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 4, 2019 Classy, as always.Meanwhile, hundreds-of-thousands of people came from all over the United States to witness Salute for America and to watch fireworks in...

VIDEO Wow! What a surprise...NOT! Liberals were triggered by President Donald Trump's July 4 speech on the National Mall. Among those triggered liberals were the expected CNN panelists giving negative reviews to Trump's speech.

The collective outcry by President Trump's critics over his Independence Day "Salute to America" was overblown, according to Marc Thiessen. Previous presidents have used the July 4 holiday to give speeches and hold events, Thiessen said Friday on "The Story." "Of all the stupid freakouts that we've had since DT was elected, this has got to be the stupidest of all time," Thiessen claimed. "There are a lot of people with egg on their face today. "The resistance told us that if we elected Donald Trump, there'll be tanks on the streets, and it was like it was finally happening."...

President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July “Salute To America” has turned into another opportunity for partisan bickering over crowd size. “I don’t know what the final count was, but that went all the way back to the Washington Monument,” the president said this morning. Trump also touted the crowd size in a tweet following the event. In response to the photo Trump tweeted of “Salute to America,” rumors spread on social media that a photo of a larger 2008 concert had been superimposed on the picture, causing Snopes to issue a fact-check to disprove them. New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...

Over 40 Gold Star mothers and wives gathered on the U.S. Capitol lawn for the anti-socialism “Rally for Freedom,” joined by outspoken conservative actor Jon Voight on Independence Day. Voight said that our fallen heroes risked everything, just like the nation’s Founding Fathers. The Gold Star women wanted to take a stand against what they say is the radical socialist agenda pushed by the extreme left and remember their fallen heroes, who risked everything for the sake of liberty. Voight spoke at the event, saying those fallen heroes risked everything, just like the nation’s Founding Fathers. “I’m an actor, so...

On this Independence Day, let me pay homage to America’s founding fathers who wrote “The Declaration of Independence”, which changed my life by bringing me to the United States in 1988. I was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, right before the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. I lived with my parents and two younger brothers in government housing which had just two small rooms with an outdoor kitchen that my Dad built. There was no indoor plumbing and heating. The free community housing had a mud floor, good for growing mushrooms. Eight families in the community shared one...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” 2020 presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) criticized President Trump’s plans for July 4th celebrations by stating that the event the president has planned “makes America look smaller.” Buttigieg said, “I think it makes America look smaller. One of the reasons I joined the military was that, in a small way, I wanted to be part of seeing to it that my country was not the kind of place where a leader feels the need to boost his own ego by rolling tanks down the streets of our capital. We’ve always...

God’s Fireworks: No Competition July 4, 2019 | David F. Coppedge Independence Day in America is a day for fireworks. Let’s compare the biggest artificial shows with God’s performances. The “Fourth of July” in the USA is almost synonymous with fireworks. Americans love watching well-crafted fireworks shows. You can even design your own computer fireworks shows now with software. But take any of the biggest displays on Earth, whether in Washington DC, Disney World, the Olympics, or in major world capitals, and they will normally be limited in area (a few square miles) and low in altitude (about 300 feet...

38-year-old King George III ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen. The Declaration of Independence, signed JULY 4, 1776, listed 27 reasons why Americans declared their independence from the King: -He has made judges dependent on his will alone ... -He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. -He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies ... -To subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution ... -For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ... -For...