Code Pink, an anti-war organization, put up a 20-foot-tall diaper-clad balloon of an infant Donald Trump in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the AP reported — though the 'Baby Trump' blimp was later deflated amid stormy weather. Read more:
Trump supporter Kevin Malton, of Middlesboro, Kentucky, took pictures with the balloon before it deflated. He said he was glad to see the mix of political beliefs at the event.
"Whenever you kind of array the U.S. military as a backdrop, and then you make a speech in front of them, what everybody, every military person is hoping, is that that speech will not be political, will not be partisan, that it really will be a speech of unity and talk about patriotic values," Stavridis said on MSNBC Thursday morning.
During a Nevada campaign event Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said,"Donald Trump is handing out tickets to his big donors, that's a campaign event." Meanwhile, Trump's 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh dismissed complaints that the president is co-opting the Independence Day event for political purposes.A White House aide who has seen drafts of Trump's remarks said the speech will be “about the greatness of America" and argued that the message will not be political.of the event. According to The Washington Post, the National Park Service is diverting roughly $2.
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