Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of President Donald Trump’s oldest son, has contracted the coronavirus. A Trump campaign official says she was immediately isolated after the positive result to limit exposure.
MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s July Fourth celebration at Mount Rushmore :President Donald Trump says he will establish a “National Garden of American Heroes,” which he is describing as “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived.”
Gor says Donald Trump Jr. tested negative but is self-isolating as a precaution. He is also canceling his public events. The White House provided excerpts of Trump’s remarks before he was to deliver them at Mount Rushmore Friday night.The monument depicts the faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Protesters barricaded the road with vans, prompting police and National Guard soldiers to move in. A standoff ensued, with police using pepper spray on several protesters but taking no further action for several hours. Trump has forcefully opposed efforts by protesters as well as by government officials to remove Confederate statues, monuments and other honors for American leaders who benefited from slavery.
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