What makes you think it won't be "nonpartisan?" Trump can make a unifying speech reminding us all that we are Americans and should celebrate our heritage. He can welcome our legal immigrants, including his wife.
No president has ever participated in or made a speech at the proceedings.
Simply not so. I provided you a detailed list of how our Presidents celebrated the Fourth of July. They made speeches at the WH, the Capitol, and the Washington Monument.
If Trump turns this into a campaign rally then it will come back to bite him.
Sounds like a Dem talking point. Trump is the President of the United States and the Commander in Chief of our armed forces. I am confident that he will make this a nonpartisan celebration and with his gift of PR and how to produce events for the public, it will be a boffo event perhaps starting its own tradition. We need a leader who unites the country instead of dividing it. Let Trump's critics bash the event or even try to disrupt it. They will be the ones making it political.
LOL! You're kidding, right? In this Washington?
Simply not so. I provided you a detailed list of how our Presidents celebrated the Fourth of July. They made speeches at the WH, the Capitol, and the Washington Monument.
I'm talking about the celebration on the Mall, which only goes back to Nixon. If Trump wants to hold a rally elsewhere, as some past presidents have done, then more power to him.