Perspective: Trump’s takeover of Fourth of July is all about his obsession with crowd count
By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist May 13 at 3:39 PM We used to believe that some things in Washington were above politics: the cherry blossoms, the Easter Egg Roll, the Fourth of July.
Trump has yet to draw a big crowd in this town, where just 4 percent of the voters supported him in the 2016 presidential election. “It’s not about any one president. It’s about how our nation came to be, because of a hardy band of brave men and women,” said Rep. Betty McCollum . “It’s not about any one person, it’s about ‘We, the people.’ And if the president moves to make this about him, I think he will find the American public disappointed and angered by it.”
If Trump follows through on his threat to co-opt Fourth of July, Washingtonians who want to celebrate America, but not Trump, will have to decide whether to go.
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